Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves by Rachel Malik

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018 A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows Sunday Times One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston. At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other. They become inseparable. Until the d Paperback softback