Keeping Her Pledge is a Short Read - approximately 90 minutes - in The Yankee Years series.
After the Allied troops arrived, life would never be the same again.
June 1942: Pearl Grainger's life is much more exciting and fun since the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Although she has to steel her nerve to help her brother, Davy, on smuggling runs across the border to the Republic of Ireland, she's out dancing several times each week and meets an RCAF seaplane navigator, Pilot Officer Chuck Walker who quickly becomes special to her.
The harsh realities of war are far removed from her until the evening an RCAF seaplane crashes into a field on her family's farm. Watching her family attempt to rescue the crew from the burning wreckage, she realises it's time she played her part in the war effort. When Pearl meets confident, competent hospital volunteer, Ruth Corey, at the nearby US Army Station Hospital she resolves to work there too..
It's not an easy promise to keep. Pearl's intentions are good but nothing in her life has prepared her for the horrific sights, sounds and smells of a hospital ward during wartime. And Chuck's disapproval and jealousy don't make it any easier.
Can Pearl keep her pledge to do her bit for the war effort without losing the man she loves?
A tale for fans of Annie Murray, Ellie Dean and Margaret Dickinson.
The Yankee Years series: During the Second World War Northern Ireland hosted American, British and Canadian troops. County Fermanagh welcomed Air Force squadrons hunting U-boats and defending shipping convoys in the Atlantic Ocean and Army battalions training and preparing for deployment to Europe's Western Front. After the Allied troops arrived, life would never be the same again. The Yankee Years novels and Short Reads weave thrilling and romantic tales of the people and the era.
Genre: Historical
After the Allied troops arrived, life would never be the same again.
June 1942: Pearl Grainger's life is much more exciting and fun since the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Although she has to steel her nerve to help her brother, Davy, on smuggling runs across the border to the Republic of Ireland, she's out dancing several times each week and meets an RCAF seaplane navigator, Pilot Officer Chuck Walker who quickly becomes special to her.
The harsh realities of war are far removed from her until the evening an RCAF seaplane crashes into a field on her family's farm. Watching her family attempt to rescue the crew from the burning wreckage, she realises it's time she played her part in the war effort. When Pearl meets confident, competent hospital volunteer, Ruth Corey, at the nearby US Army Station Hospital she resolves to work there too..
It's not an easy promise to keep. Pearl's intentions are good but nothing in her life has prepared her for the horrific sights, sounds and smells of a hospital ward during wartime. And Chuck's disapproval and jealousy don't make it any easier.
Can Pearl keep her pledge to do her bit for the war effort without losing the man she loves?
A tale for fans of Annie Murray, Ellie Dean and Margaret Dickinson.
The Yankee Years series: During the Second World War Northern Ireland hosted American, British and Canadian troops. County Fermanagh welcomed Air Force squadrons hunting U-boats and defending shipping convoys in the Atlantic Ocean and Army battalions training and preparing for deployment to Europe's Western Front. After the Allied troops arrived, life would never be the same again. The Yankee Years novels and Short Reads weave thrilling and romantic tales of the people and the era.
Genre: Historical
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