Goodnight, Sweet Prince/Wild Strawberries by Emma Blair
GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE - Nacy Thompson is a bondager, a farm labourer forced to live in virtual slavery, her life dictated by the cruel and barbaric whims of her masters. Tommy Riach is a teenager in his father's mould, expelled from school for drinking and smoking. For each of them, events are about to change their lives forever. The advent of war finds Tommy fighting for the RAF and Nacy is working at a distillery. As the Second World War begins to bite, only time will tell how the their hopes and fears will fall...WILD STRAWBERRIES - In the countryside of West Cornwall lies the small fishing village of Coverack and the warm welcome of the Paris Hotel. It's an appropriate name because the owner, Maizie Blackacre, finds her life changed forever by the arrival of a young Frenchman. The Second World War has left Maizie to cope alone with the hotel's dwindling trade and two young evacuees. Then the arrival of Christian Le Gall, a French Lietenant recuperating from a war wound, lightens all ther lives...