As with many of her books this one can be read as part of a series and this one is number 2 of the series dealing with Lady Bingram's aides.
Another easy read. All about how people coped after the war - the women being forced out of jobs, men being demobbed, the awful welfare system, corruption and new people out to make things better. This book had all of these plus a good story-line.
During the war Vi Gill was a woman's Aide - helping out doing whatever was necessary at the time. Afterwards her role was disbanded and she had to return to her home town but was determined not to tie herself down working in her dad's shop for peanuts. On the way home she meets a demobbed soldier who is returning to his home town too but to a baby his wife gave birth to but who he knows his not his own and no home to offer to his other two children. Both make acquaintances with a pair of genteel sisters who are living very thrifty as their brother spent all the family money. They end up living in the sisters' house paying rent and doing odd jobs as well as others the sisters deem to help. Both characters face problems which they work to overcome. Vi sees a health visitors job advertised and applies for it, against the wishes of some in the town and Joss struggles to get his children away from their maternal grandmother who is making their life a misery.
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