A ROMANTIC, SWEEPING AND EMOTIONAL WORLD WAR I HISTORICAL FAMILY SAGA.

‘Amy Myers gives us a richly rewarding story full of interesting characters with whose situations we can sympathise with.’ Historical Novels Review

Summer, 1914.

Change is coming as swiftly as the seasons themselves. And the catalyst is the arrival of Aunt Tilly . . .

Preparations for the wedding of the Rector’s eldest daughter, Isobel Lilley, are well underway. The Rectory larders are full to the brim. The bridesmaids’ dresses fitted and pressed. The bridal gown allotted a room of its own. The only thing missing is Aunt Tilly. But little does the Lilley family know, the arrival of Aunt Tilly will spark a chain of events that threatens to tear the village of Ashden apart. When the dark clouds of war reach Ashden, Isobel and her sisters face daunting personal and social changes. Women of all classes are called upon to rise to the challenges of war and the Lilley family find themselves facing a new world that brings both tragedy and newfound freedom. The whole village comes together in the face of adversity, but Aunt Tilly takes it one step too far, putting the stability of the Rectory in jeopardy. Can the Lilley family survive Aunt Tilly’s visit and the outbreak of war?