Contents

1. Chapter 1. Mary Vale
2. Chapter 2. Barrow Shipyard
3. Chapter 3. Scandal
4. Chapter 4. Good News
5. Chapter 5. Gracie
6. Chapter 6. RAF Duxford
7. Chapter 7. Dunkirk
8. Chapter 8. East to West
9. Chapter 9. Market Gardening
10. Chapter 10. Butter and Chores
11. Chapter 11. Therapeutic Work
12. Chapter 12. An Invitation
13. Chapter 13. Grasmere
14. Chapter 14. Watendlath
15. Chapter 15. Alf Arkwright
16. Chapter 16. Leave
17. Chapter 17. Party
18. Chapter 18. Behind the Lines
19. Chapter 19. Novice
20. Chapter 20. Salves and Poultices
21. Chapter 21. Shockwaves
22. Chapter 22. A Breakfast of Ashes
23. Chapter 23. Frank Exchanges
24. Chapter 24. Ditched
25. Chapter 25. Cartmel Forest
26. Chapter 26. Baby’s First Gift
27. Chapter 27. Babies
28. Chapter 28. Basque Country
29. Chapter 29. Christmas Eve
30. Chapter 30. Surprise
31. Chapter 31. Mary Vale Farm
32. Chapter 32. Sour Milk Gill
33. Chapter 33
34. Chapter 34. Coming Home
35. Chapter 35. Arrangements
36. Chapter 36. St Mary’s, Allithwaite
37. Chapter 37. Good Luck! Goodbye! Farewell!
38. Chapter 38. Business Matters
39. Chapter 39. February
40. Chapter 40. On Top of the World
41. Chapter 41. Cartmel Cottage
42. Chapter 42. Spring Weddings, 1941
43. Acknowledgements