Rebecca Bryn

The Dandelion Clock Rebecca Bryn

Lovers torn apart by The Great War. Bill, a young shoe-last maker, lives on the Northamptonshire estate of the Duke of Buccleuch and is plucking up his courage to ask his sweetheart, Florrie to marry him. In the summer of 1914, the declaration of war dashes all their dreams. Bill joins the local yeomanry and is allocated a bay mare, Copper, the property of Lady Alice, the duke's daughter. While Bill fights the Central Powers and he and Copper endure the hardships and tragedies of Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine, Florrie fights her own war at home in England, bringing up six of her eight siblings and contending with rationing, shortages, and a drunken and violent widowed father. Can Bill survive to keep his promises to marry Florrie and bring home Copper, his beloved warhorse? Can Bill and Florrie's love survive five years apart? The Dandelion Clock is based on real events.