The Happy Ending

A WARTIME FARM STORY

Late 1940: Leo and his young family, their self-styled home by the Yorkshire coast requisitioned by the Ministry, arrive at a remote railway station in south-west Wales. The intention is to farm for the war effort, and provide shelter for evacuee
children.

But the large house that Leo has bought sight-unseen is almost derelict, and the farmland has been neglected for many years. Making the house habitable and restoring the fields to yield good crops seems an almost insurmountable task, and his dream of building a lake with the elusive golden waterwheel now seems even more unattainable.

The Happy Ending follows on from the tales told in Love in the Sun and The Golden Waterwheel, but is also a complete and enchanting story in its own right.


Genre: General Fiction