Introduction

This 4 book set by Daisy Styles follows the stories of a group of courageous midwives during the challenging years of WWII. Written with a great attention to detail, this collection offers an informative and inspiring look into this remarkable part of history. Enjoy a Mother Love, Home Fires & Spitfires, Wartime Midwives, and Keep Smiling for a complete wartime experience.

Titles in this Set:

A Mother Love
Home Fires & Spitfires
Wartime Midwives
Keep Smiling

Description

A Mother Love
The Lake District, 1944.Spring is in the air for the women at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home.

BeautifulStella,the head-turning cook of a munitions factory, has been swept off her feet by a handsome GI. He proposes when she falls pregnant, but soon his letters stop arriving . . .

Then there isLillian,who is deeply unimpressed when she is conscripted as a Land Girl miles from her home, but then she meets a charming, married vet . . .

Meanwhile, midwifeAdais getting used to being back at work after the birth of her own beautiful baby girl. But she faces the biggest challenge of her life when the home is engulfed in an outbreak of whooping cough.

Home Fires & Spit Fires
Tucked on the edge of the Lake District lies Mary Vale, a Mother and Baby Home open to unmarried women and their children. But tensions arise when three very different mums-to-be walk through the doors.

Plucky shipyard worker Gracie must overcome her shame when her lover turns out to be married. Newly engaged Diana’s fianc tragically goes missing in action days before the wedding, while isolated and bedraggled Zelda turns heads when she arrives from the ghettos of Germany.

At Mary Vale, unity is key as the bombs keep falling.

Wartime Midwives
Mary Vale, a grand and imposing Mother & Baby Home, sits on the edge of the Lake District. Its doors are open to unmarried women who come to hide their condition and find sanctuary.

Women from all walks of life pass through Mary Vale, from beautiful waitressEmily, whose boyfriend has vanished without trace, to youngIsla, cast out by her wealthy family after her first year at university goes horribly wrong.

Awaiting them isNurse AdaandSister Annewho work tirelessly to aid the mothers and safely deliver the babies. But the unforgiving Matron and Head of Governors, Captain Percival, have other, more sinister, ideas.