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She wanted a new life. Now she's risking it to save others.Cecily Hanson longs to live life on her own terms - to leave the shadow of her overbearing mother and marry her childhood sweetheart once he returns from the Great War. But when her fianc is lost at sea, this future is shattered. Looking for meaning again, she decides to perform for the troops in France.Life on the front line is both rewarding and terrifying, and Cecily soon finds herself more involved - and more in danger - than she ever thought possible. And her family has followed her to France. Her sister, Merryn, has fallen for a young drummer whose charm hides a dark side, while their mother, Queenie - a faded star of the stage tormented by her own secret heartache - seems set on a path of self-destruction.
About the Author
Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot has been a teacher, bookseller and in a mad moment, a smallholder on the freezing fells of the Lake District where she tried her hand at the 'good life', kept sheep and hens, planted a small wood and even learned how to make jam. She has now given up her thermals and built a house in an olive grove in Spain, where she produces her own olive oil and sits in the sun on the rare occasions she is not writing, but still likes to spend the rainy summers in the UK. She has published 40 novels including many bestselling family sagas and historical fiction.
For more information about Freda, visit her website www.fredalightfoot.co.uk
