World War Two Against the express wishes of her absent husband Barney, Kath joins up as a landgirl and moves from Birmingham to work on Mat Ramsden's farm in the Yorkshire countryside Next door the Fairchild estate has been harnessed for the war effort Roz, exempted from call-up to work on the land, has something to hide from her grandmother, who has secrets of her own A moving story of women caught in the emotional crossfire of war