Hopeful Hearts for the Wrens : A moving and uplifting WW2 wartime saga by Vicki Beeby EPUB & PDF – Details Online
- Authors: Vicki Beeby
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical World War II Fiction
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Orkney, July 1943
The first thing Sally Hartley saw when she stepped onto the stony path
outside Kyeness signal station was the glint of copper in a puddle. ‘Oh look
– a penny!’ She stooped to check it was lying head-side up before seizing it.
She waved it in the face of her friend and sister Wren, Mary Griffiths. ‘See
a penny, pick it up and all day long you’ll have good luck.’
Mary raised her eyes heavenwards as though praying for help. ‘Don’t tell
me you actually believe that.’ Before Sally could draw breath to reply, Mary
went on, ‘No, don’t bother to answer. After two years, I know how
seriously you take your superstitions.’
‘You can scoff all you like,’ Sally said, tucking the penny into her pocket,
‘but thanks to this, it’s going to be a good day.’ And despite her weariness
from a whole night spent on watch, she set off to Stromness with an extra
spring in her step. She had the rest of the day and the whole of tomorrow
free. The sun was shining, and a skylark soared and dived overhead, filling
the air with its joyful song. It promised to be a perfect summer’s day, and
who knew – with the help of her lucky penny, perhaps it would turn out to
be even better than she had thought?
She couldn’t resist a glance across the water to the island of Hoy. With its
towering cliffs and hills, Hoy could be seen from just about anywhere in
Orkney’s West Mainland, and in the eighteen months she had been in
Orkney, Sally had become accustomed to orienting herself by it – on the
days it wasn’t shrouded in mist, at any rate. However, in the past seven
months, it had become something more.
For Adam Clark, the man she had
been in love with ever since she had first seen him in Whitby before the
war, had arrived in Orkney just before Christmas and was serving in Lyness
on Hoy – the main naval base in Orkney. Although he had promised to keep
in touch now they were based so close to each other, his letters had been
few and far between, and she had only seen him in Stromness twice since
bumping into him last Christmas. It was a painful reminder that although
she knew in her heart they were perfect for each other, the message hadn’t
got through to Adam yet. As far as he was concerned, Sally was just a girl
he knew from home.
Sally stuck her hand into her pocket and closed it around her lucky
penny. Maybe today was the day that all changed. She had to believe Adam
would return her feelings soon. She didn’t know how much longer her heart
could bear the constant weight of longing.
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