It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches.
Valerie Wilding was born in London and now lives on the edge of a small market town in Hampshire with her younger daughter and grandson. She was a teacher for twenty years. She started writing children's stories in the 1980s.
