The long, long trail - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now.

David
has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister
Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the
Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an
ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,
while racked with her secret guilt and a new threat of exposure.

U-boat
attacks face Britain with starvation, and with the worsening privation
comes a new horror as Germany begins a lethal bombing campaign. But even
in the darkest hours of war, new life and new hope can burgeon, with
the promise that the future might still hold happiness for them all.

The Long, Long Trail is the fourth book in the War at Home series
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, author of the much-loved Morland Dynasty
novels. Set against the real events of 1917, at home and on the front,
this is a vivid and rich family drama featuring the Hunter family and
their servants.