If You Were the Only Girl | Anne Bennett
When Lucy s father dies, she is forced to take a job in service as a scullery maid at Windthorpe House, home to the aristocratic Hetheringtons, who lost three of their sons in the Great War. When their only remaining son, Clive returns home, he and Lucy strike up an immediate bond but Clive, much to his family s alarm, decides to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, though when he returns, he is injured. With the outbreak of war ever more certain, the two fall in love. But Hitler s troops are gathering and fate has something very different in store for both of them
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