It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in rural Scotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of ‘lending a hand on the land’, as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high.

Soon one of the girls falters, and Bee and Pauline receive a new posting to a Northumberland dairy farm. Detailing their friendship, daily struggles and romantic intrigues with a lightness of touch, Barbara Whitton’s autobiographical novel paints a sometimes funny, sometimes bleak picture of time spent in the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Author
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE Going Native
• CHAPTER TWO Comes the Dawn
• CHAPTER THREE Merciful Heavens
• CHAPTER FOUR Pauline Arrives
• CHAPTER FIVE Giltless Gingerbread
• CHAPTER SIX Out with Walter
• CHAPTER SEVEN Anne Leaves Us
• CHAPTER EIGHT Moving On
• CHAPTER NINE Charlie and the Customers
• CHAPTER TEN Delivering the Goods
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Green Geese
• CHAPTER TWELVE Pauline in Spring
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Hay in Summer
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Battle of the Bees
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Like Ruth, Like Hell
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN Treading a Measure