Roman typically British, both in form and substance. Who but an English novelist to be interested in the three volunteers propelled a farm in Dorset to help the war effort? Yet the pages the reader gets used to their daily lives and to all agricultural tasks which they are assigned ... Roman history by treating a parallel subject, it is also a fairly accurate evocation of rural society English during the second war and codes of conduct, which today appear outdated to say the least. In the end and only if you like the mud on the boots, the smell of the barn and the tone assigned to the author, it attaches to the fate of Prue, Ag and Stella and their love questions ...