Copper Rose

Description:

When Rose Turner's mother dies, life changes completely for Rose. Forced to leave London, and separated from her beloved younger brother Charlie, she has no option but to accept work as an under housemaid, in a large manor house in the country. Here she meets the gardener's boy, foundling Toby Whitstable, whose passion in life is growing roses. They dream that one day they will make a comfortable life together, but this is 1914 and the First World War is about to commence. After this, their lives will never be the same again.

subjects: Romance,  Large type books,  World War, 1914-1918,  Fiction,  Fiction, romance, historical, general

People: Rose Turner,  Charlie,  Toby Whitstable

Times: World War I