In Time of War — Nicola Thorne

Individual acts of heroism and endurance mingle with the mystery of Irene's disappearance and the fate of the Woodvilles' old adversary, Bart Sadler, who risks everything to find her.

It is July 1939 and Alexander Martyn has married Irene, a beautiful German girl. After a blissful honeymoon in Italy, Irene returns to Berlin to warn a friend of the impending danger and immediately disappears without trace. Alexander joins the RAF, but his thoughts are always on his bride's unknown fate. But this is not the only catastrophe to engulf the family as the whole world bursts into the flames of conflict.

Ending in 1950 this volume brings to a close the saga of the Dorset landowners, the Woodville family, and the people of the small parish of Wenham, their friends and associates, which began in 1880 when Queen Victoria still ruled the British Empire.

This is the final book in the six part The People of This Parish Saga