With tensions rising all around them, Lorna must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice before the end of the war determines their fate. Loving Paul could mean losing her family and the life she’s always known. Lorna Andersons days are filled with working on her familys farm, going to school with her best friend Iris, and.

Soon Lorna is battling her own warring heart. It is 1945 and World War II has yet to end. The more she learns about him-from his time fighting a war he doesn’t believe in, to his life back home in Germany-the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country?But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. Caroline Leech’s Wait for Me is a delicately written love story, ideal for history and non-history fans alike.

In the audio above, producer Michael Hagerty talks with Leech on the occasion of her first book’s publication back in 2017.The perfect blend of sweet romance and historical flavor, Wait for Me, from debut author Caroline Leech, brings a fresh new voice to a much-loved genre. With a workforce decimated by World War II, farms throughout the United Kingdom begin relying. Fast forward to her publishing her debut novel in January 2017. Wait For Me By Caroline Leech (HarperTeen £7.99) Reviewed by Karen Byrom Seventeen-year-old Lorna Anderson can’t wait to escape the endless chores on her family’s East Lothian farm. Leech completed her first draft then put it away until she needed an entry for a writing contest. Leech wrote that book while participating in National Novel Writing Month, where participants commit to writing 50,000 words of a rough draft in the month of November. She's shocked when a young German POW is assigned to work on her father's farm. Her first book, Wait for Me, tells the story of a young woman near the end of the war.

Her latest book, In Another Time, is out this week and tells a love story against the backdrop of the very real-life scenario of the Women's Timber Corps, a group of women who worked as lumberjacks to support the war effort. Think the Twilight series or The Hunger Games, just to name a few.īut local writer Caroline Leech has chosen to set her first two young adult novels somewhere very real – World War II Scotland. Young adult novels these days are all vampires and dystopia.

Wait for me by caroline leech