Book description
Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the
oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic
Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and
forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the
concept of death, just wants her Daddy to come home for Christmas.
Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the
oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic
Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and
forget about everything. Evie, struggling to come to terms with the
concept of death, just wants her Daddy to come home for Christmas.
But Wintergill is far from the quiet refuge that they expected.
Devastated by Foot and Mouth, Nik Snowden and his Mother Nora are facing
a bleak future. The two are at loggerheads. Nora has had enough of the
hard life but Nik wants to keep the house and lands that have been in
his family for generations.
But Nik is not the only one attached to the house. In the distant past,
a terrible tragedy occurred and ever since a restless spirit has haunted
the land, seeking a child that once was lost. Through the generations,
the ghost has brought misery and pain to bear on the inhabitants. But
where one spirit has sown despair, others have sought to protect the
children of Wintergill. Praise for The Girl From World's End and The
War Widows:
'A beautiful, almost poetically-written tale of love and tragedy in the
Yorkshire Dales mainly set during the Second World War. The characters
are real flesh and blood and the reader shares their ups and downs with
genuine empathy.'
Maureen Lee, bestselling author of Mother of Pearl.
'An epic tale of hardship and tragedy straddling the Second World War.'
The Bookseller
'A heartwarming read.'
Closer
' Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire of Scottish parents, and is
married with four grown-up children and five grandchildren. She usually
writes full-time from a haunted farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales, but
has recently completed a gap year for grown-ups living on the slopes of
an olive grove in Crete. She is currently working on her next novel,
Winter's Children, to be published in 2010.
