The Blacksmith's Girl

Set against the backdrop of a country at war, the uplifting tale of an unusual friendship between two very different women.

Cornwall 1916. Verity Tregorran, one of the local blacksmith’s nine daughters, is finding it hard to hide her long-term feelings for Ned Chegwidden, the boy next door, now serving in the trenches. For if her parents knew of Verity’s attachment to someone outside the family’s strict Christian sect, they would be horrified.

Loitering on the coastal path one evening, Veri...