Spring 1944 and Europe is in the grip of war. For Alice Todd, it is the start of her second year as warden of the Land Army hostel in the Devonshire countryside and a time of change as she recovers from her broken marriage, learning to balance her new working lifestyle with her continuing role as a mother to her only son.
If no-one recalled her arrival at the hostel they were unlikely to forget her departure from it. Through the boisterous adventures of the other Land Girls as war ends and peacetime begins, Evie's story has run, out of sight and out of mind, until the distruptive arrival, one July evening, of Corporal Norman Clark. But this is not to be the end of Evie's connection with the Post Stone farms or with Roger, Alice and Edward John, Georgina and Christopher, Ferdie and Mabel, Hester, Dave and Rose Crocker, or with Giorgio, the Italian POW, who loves her.
It is England, 1943. The country is at war with so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her young son.