Land Girl in Fernlow

June 1944. The doctor's youngest daughter reported for duty at Hob Lane Farm in brand-new breeches, and the Italian prisoner in the cowshed laughed out loud.Daphne Latham has spent the war wanting to be somewhere else. She is film-mad, dance-mad and the baby of the family, and when the Women's Land Army finally takes her, it sends her one mile out of Fernlow, to live at home under her mother's eye and milk cows for the Bebbingtons. Her mother gives her a week.Wilf Bebbington has loved her since the infants' school. He is ashamed of every uniform that passes him on the square, and now that the farm has a Land Girl and two Italian prisoners, nothing will keep him on it.And Luca Ferrante, twenty-four, a farmer's son from near Parma, captured in the desert two years ago, sings in the hayfield as if the war were somebody else's business. The rules say a prisoner may speak to an English girl about the work and nothing else. The town says Italians were the enemy until last year. Mrs Latham says a great deal more than that.Through the harvest and a winter of flying bombs, through a burning aircraft on the mosses and a telegram from the War Office, Daphne finds out what she is for, and that a promise can be the bravest thing two people own.A Land Girl in Fernlow is the third book in The Doctor's Daughters, a heartwarming WW2 family saga of four sisters, one doctor's house on a Cheshire market square, and the years that changed them all. Perfect for readers who love Land Girls, wartime sisters, home front grit, a forbidden romance and a happy ending earned the hard way.