Product Description

It's 1942 and three young women join the Women's Timber Corps, eager to do their bit for the war effort. Buxom and bouncy, red-headed Lou is newly married and sees her training in Cornwall as a way of staying near her sailor husband. Petite, blonde Gracie is making a break from her quarrelling, interfering parents and Rosie wants to escape from her bully of a brother. Life as new recruits is a bit of a shock, but they are keen to stay together in their next posting: the Lake District. Emotions are always more intense in wartime, and Rosie is swept off her feet by an American GI. Her dream of returning to the States as his wife is cruelly shattered when he tells her he's married already. Gracie falls in love with a German POW, earning the hatred of villagers and colleagues alike. And Lou has to deal with the news that her husband is missing in action.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1235290 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 372 pages

Review
On KITTY LITTLE: 'Freda Lightfoot's talent for creating believable characters makes this a page-turning read.' Newcastle Evening Chronicle 2 'A heart-warming Lakeland saga.' Southern Daily Echo 3 On POLLY'S WAR: 'Freda Lightfoot's new novel is a tale of a courageous young woman determined to make a better life for herself and her family.' Lancashire Life - Manchester 4 'A heart wrenching family story that keeps you turning the pages as the drama unfolds.' Scunthrope Evening Telegraph 5 '[Freda Lightfoot] has an established readership who will be delighted by this latest offering... deftly chronicled, and likeable'. Telegraph & Argus 6 'The writer clearly knows her Manchester well, especially the canals, warehouses, factories and humble shops and dwellings of the poor. Her historical research has been painstaking and the sense of the period is very real.' Historical Novel Society 7 On THE BOBBIN GIRLS: 'Real people and real dramas are her mainstay.' Westmoreland Gazette

Dorset Evening Echo
'A rattling good read to touch the heart of anyone who has loved someone they shouldn't have.'

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
'A heart wrenching family story that keeps you turning the pages as the drama unfolds.'

Customer Reviews

A ENJOYABLE READ
I could not put this book down, the story is a little slow at times but do not let that put you off.

Set during the war it follows the lifes and loves of the girls
off the timber corp, from there training in cornwall to working in the lakedistrict with the german pows, what i liked was the way the charcters change and show there true colours as thay grow
and experance life.

Iwould have given 5 stars but the ending was a little bit disapointing.

Very Disappointed
I pruchased Gracie's Sin due to the book's setting. I have to say that I was very disappointed. The book started out well, but half way though the character completely changed. If I was not for the names I would not have recognize them. The ending of the book does not leave the me at all satisfy. A decent beginning, but that all.