Blue smoke - Deborah Challinor

On 3 February 1931, Napier is devastated by a powerful earthquake - and Tamar Murdoch, beloved matriarch of Kenmore, is seriously injured. As she recovers, Tamar is preoccupied with the ongoing effects of the Great Depression. When her grandson threatens to leave for Spain to join the International Brigade, she feels a familiar dread - once again her family is threatened by war and heartbreak, as Hitler's armies march. In this final volume of the Children of War trilogy, the story of the feisty Cornish seamstress who became a brothelkeeper and landowner is brought to a stirring and memorable conclusion.