Book description
Is it possible for a ten-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer
thinks so. Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End of London at the
outbreak of war, she is frightened of the wide open spaces and the huge
skies. But the kindly Thornton family soon makes her feel welcome. And
no one more so than Georgie, the handsome RAF fighter pilot who is
caught up in the battle for Britain’s survival. When Georgie is posted
missing, presumed dead, Jenny is devastated.
More heartbreak is to come when Jenny’s mother Dot decides she wants
her daughter home and Jenny is forced to return to live in the city
which is now under almost daily attack from enemy bombers. Dot’s ‘fancy
man’, Arthur Osborne, treats Jenny kindly. But is Arthur only interested
in the girl because she can be useful to him? No one will suspect a
ten-year-old of being involved with the Black Market . . .
When the law comes a little too close for Arthur’s comfort, the family
flees in the city and heads towards the hills and the dales of
Derbyshire. There, Jenny is caught up in a life of deception. All she
really wants is to go back to Lincolnshire. For Jenny has never given up
hope that one day, Georgie will come back.
Born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the
coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the
Lincolnshire landscape.
Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel
published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by twenty-two
further titles including Plough the Furrow, Sow the Seed and Reap the
Harvest, which make up her Lincolnshire Fleethaven trilogy. Many of her
novels are set in the heart of her home county but in Tangled Threads
and Twisted Strands, the stories include not only Lincolnshire but also
the framework knitting and lace industries of Nottingham.
