Time To Move On — Grace Thompson

Seranne Laurence is furious when her mother announces she is to marry the latest in a long line of unsuitable men-friends. She soon realises that she hasn't the right to interfere in her mother's life but that means she must leave the tea rooms she and her mother run together. Filled with resentment towards her stepfather, Seranne moves to the small Welsh village of Cwm Derw.
There she finds many new friends including Betty and Alun at the Ship and Compass and Babs and Tony at the bakery. Then there is Luke, who laughs at her misfortunes and whose friendship she accepts. It is a friendship she comes to value highly when he risks his own life to rescue her.