Flower for your Troubles

1944, WW2's English home-front.
Land Girl, Rose, and Bevin Boy, Eddie, work their respective national services above and below a northern, Yorkshire Landscape. A small display of community pride and joy at the Summer Fair will bring heart and soul together and every layer of the district's society.
A war nearly won abroad, but conflicts of personal and collective obligation further turn and tug at the gathered faithful.
But first the crowning of The Summer Queen: head and tail of the judging body are a Mr Charles Butterworth, wealthy pit owner, industrialist and the newly assumed Lord of Carford Hall's grandeur, and a Miss Moorhouse, Methodist firebrand with an incomparable spiritual capital.
Overlooking the miniature whole, the venerable Ma Higgins, a wellspring of natural goodness and grace, and worth her salt, her sobering sentence...

''Flower for your Troubles', is a novel as rich as chocolate cake!'
Carry Franklin, screenwriter 'Suzie Gold'.