In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and
their servants the war is where they live now.
David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his
sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at
the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an
ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,
while racked with her secret guilt and a new threat of exposure.
U-boat attacks face Britain with starvation, and with the worsening
privation comes a new horror as Germany begins a lethal bombing
campaign. But even in the darkest hours of war, new life and new hope
can burgeon, with the promise that the future might still hold happiness
for them all.
The Long, Long Trail is the fourth book in the War at Home series
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, author of the much-loved Morland Dynasty
novels. Set against the real events of 1917, at home and on the front,
this is a vivid and rich family drama featuring the Hunter family and
their servants.