Susan Yellam has always seen God’s finger in the smallest domestic matters of Nether-Applewhite, her quiet English village. Then the Great War takes her son Alfred to France, the lively Fancy Broomfield enters the family, and recruiting, rumour and the empty pew in church strain a simple, stubborn faith to breaking point.
Written during the war and dedicated to the author’s son, a captain of Fusiliers, it captures the home front with real feeling. Download the free EPUB.