![]() ![]() The idea to start a village orchestra is indeed La's, although an RAF officer at the nearby base does most of the groundwork, arranging transportation for soldiers and musicians and finding music. She bicycles because petrol is hard to come by, and she runs out of tea and coffee. ![]() She seems to have none of the concerns that perplex people in the wartime novels of D. (The whole impact of the war on Suffolk, or at least on La, is exceedingly light. The duties which she is assigned are exceedingly light she has to take care of a local farmer's chickens. Another choice she didn't make for herself. She never does anything, nor did she ever plan to do anything, with her degree.Īs the war begins, La seeks to volunteer for war work and the officer in charge of applications steers her into the Women's Land Army. She drifts to Suffolk to live in her in-laws' second home and the husband whom we've never really got to know dies in France, leaving her a widow. She falls in love with him after they marry, we are told, but no sooner do we learn this than he hares off to France to live with his mistress. She has gone to Cambridge and achieved a degree, but without ambition a man she meets there chivvies her into marriage and she accedes to it, although she feels little for him. They lived with her for a period of some years as children and want to know more about her. ![]() At the beginning of the book, two unnamed young men arrive in a village to find out about the life of one La, short for Lavender. ![]()
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