Sweet Sorrow

By Millie Vigor

Life is hard for a woman alone in war…

With both parents dead and no known relatives, eighteen years old Dorrie Bartlett is alone. She inherits her parents property and takes a job in the village, before meeting Garnet Plowman who she falls madly in love with. She cannot believe her luck when he falls for her as well.

But it is 1939: Britain is at war with Germany.

Garnet is called up to join the army and, in an emotional farewell, he begs Dorrie to wait for him.

She volunteers for the army too and at her physical examination finds out that she is pregnant. In 1940 a son, Lucas, is born to Dorrie. But being a single mother is hard to deal with.

There are unkind words, a predatory male to fight off , the prevention of a friends’ suicide and the accidental discovery of her mother’s wealthy family.

Then, the worst news possible: a telegram tells Garnet’s mother that he is missing presumed dead. Freda Plowman is convinced that Garnet will come home – but will he?

Even if he does their lives will have been altered by what happens to them. Will it bode good or ill for their futures?

Millie Vigor’s first book, Kippers for Breakfast, was an autobiographical account of her life in Shetland at the time of the North Sea oil boom. She has written several other books, including, Catherine of Deepdale, No Skylarks Sing, Paying Davy Jones, and The Winding Stair. Millie now lives in Somerset with a cat called Harriet.