The Chestnut Tree (Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction Series,)

Bingham, Charlotte Charlotte Bingham,

ISBN 10: 0786259515 / ISBN 13: 9780786259519

Published by Thorndike Pr, 2003

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The Chestnut Tree (Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction Series,) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chestnut Tree (Thorndike Press Large Print Women's Fiction Series,)
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786259515
• ISBN 13: 9780786259519
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

An International Bestseller

It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Friends Judy Melton, Meggie Gore-Steward, Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes are all, in their individual ways, determined to play an active part in the defense of their country. But knitting socks and bomb dodging are not what they have in mind.

From the Inside Flap

It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic fishing village of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful Judy Melton, daughter of a naval war hero, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Stewart, seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Todd, the tomboy daughter of the owner of the local boatyard, are all determined to play an active role while their husbands and brothers, fathers and lovers are away fighting. But knitting socks and dodging bombs are not what they have in mind.

However, it is not just the young women who are determined to find new roles for themselves -- so are their mothers. In this manner the little Sussex port, facing as it does the coastline of Nazi-invaded France, finds its closely sewn social fabric beginning to unstitch, inch by inch.

The women of Bexham meet under the chestnut tree on the green to look back on a landscape that has changed irrevocably, and which they have helped to alter. None of them is the same as before, and yet, as the men return from war, they are expected to slip back into their simple roles of mother, daughter, grand-mother. Only the chestnut tree continues to flourish in the accepted fashion, becoming the uniting symbol of all that has passed forever.