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The Long, Long Trail
First published 2017
It is 1917, and the Hunters now measure life by shortages, telegrams and the movements of armies. David has returned from military service damaged by what he has endured, Diana faces pregnancy while her husband remains at the Front, and Laura goes to France with an ambulance unit. At home, Beattie continues war work while carrying private fears that the strain of wartime life makes harder to conceal.
German U-boats threaten Britain's food supply and a new bombing campaign brings danger directly to civilians. Yet the year also creates new forms of work, independence and solidarity. The fourth volume shows a society exhausted but transformed, where endurance depends as much on the people maintaining households, hospitals and supply lines as on those fighting overseas.
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