This Time for Keeps

It's 1943. When Babs Scott loses her beloved parents in an air raid, she is left homeless and alone. The Land Army offers her a new life away from the bombed streets of Rotherhithe and, despite the backbreaking toil, Babs loves the fresh, clean air and green fields of Sussex. Soon the farm begins to feel like home and, with the support of fellow Land Girl Lydi Wells, Babs starts to heal.

Then two Italian prisoners of war are sent to the farm to work and Babs's safe world collapses again.

Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London. She left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen and was married at twenty. She has written eighteen sagas, including Forgive and Forget, Hopes and Dreams and Love and War.

Kim Hicks has developed, and performed in, several critically-acclaimed one-woman shows which have toured throughout the country. She has read poems and short stories for Radio 4, while her theatre work includes Twelfth Night, A Doll's House and The Choice. Her film appearances include Leon the Pig Farmer.