Cornish harvest — Rosemary Aitken

Two families' fortunes are entwined in this evocative Cornish saga set during the First World War.

Lizzie Treloweth is one of ten children. With the outbreak of World War I, their father enlists and the family struggle to run his butcher's shop in Penzance. Lizzie trains as a nurse under Tamsin Beswetherick, daughter of the local gentry, and their friendship with the four Jago brothers develops.