A Village in the Country
It’s November
1918 and the whole nation comes together to give thanks for the end of a bloody
world war that has left few families unscathed.
More than seven hundred thousand men have perished; those fortunate
enough to return are mere shadows of the men who left. Women who have kept the country going by
working in munitions factories and picking fruit and vegetables on farms and in
market gardens are expected to give up their jobs to the men returning
home. In the peaceful Essex village of
Dagenham Milly Brightwell is among the women who are not happy at having to
take a step back in peacetime as she dreams and makes plans of becoming her own
boss.
Purchase Links
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Village-Country-Elaine-Spires-ebook/dp/B098MMS65B
US - https://www.amazon.com/Village-Country-Elaine-Spires-ebook/dp/B098MMS65B
Author Bio – Elaine Spires is a novelist, playwright, actress and
theatre director. In spite of travelling
intensively and living in several countries - Spain, Greece and Antigua - she
remains a proud Dagenham Girl and in 2017 returned to her roots. Elaine developed an eye for the quirky
characteristics of people as she travelled, captivating the humorous
observations she now affectionately shares with her readers in all her books. As well as the books listed below, Elaine has
written several one-act plays and also the stage adaptation of her novel
Singles’ Holiday which was performed at the Brentwood Theatre by Melabeau
Productions. She wrote the Antiguan TV
Series Paradise View for HAMA TV and Films and in 2019 her short film
(co-written with Veronique Christie) Only the Lonely won the Gaucho Club Best
Short Film Award and two silver awards at WOFFF (Women Over Fifty Film
Festival) in the same year.
Elaine hopes
you will enjoy looking further back in time with this book, to an era when
Dagenham was simply A Village in the Country.
Also by Elaine
Spires and available in paperback and on Kindle from amazon.co.uk
What’s Eating
Me
Sweet Lady
Singles’
Holiday
Singles and
Spice
Single All The
Way
Singles At Sea
Singles, Set
and Match
The Single
Best Thing
The Banjo Book
One
The Banjo Book
Two
You Never See
Rainbows At Christmas
Weak At The
Knees & The Christmas Queen (novellas)
Holiday Reads
& Holiday Reads 2 (short story collections)
Social Media Links
https://Facebook.com/ElaineSpiresAuthor
https://Twitter.com/ElaineSWriter
https://Instagram.com/elainespiresauthor
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