1. The Mother’s Day Club
Norfolk, 1939. The residents of Great Plumstead volunteer to receive evacuees from London and prepare themselves for displaced children. Instead, the train brings expectant mothers who need shelter away from the threatened capital, forcing the village to improvise accommodation and confront very different ideas about duty,…
2. The Mother’s Day Victory
Norfolk, 1940. Prue, Thea and their neighbours in Great Plumstead are increasingly absorbed by the practical work of war, from the Women’s Voluntary Service mobile canteen to salvage drives and clothing collections. The community that adapted to evacuation now faces the greater fear and suspicion produced…