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Partita invites Kitty to Borders Castle, introducing her to aristocratic life, beauty, and theatrical society, while Kitty battles London poverty. War abruptly reshapes their futures, as both become nurses caring for men gravely injured in the trenches. The story centers on mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives sustaining the homefront, exploring love, heartbreak, and the resilience of female friendship.","About the Book  \nChristmas 1913. Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite vastly different backgrounds. Partita has invited her friend, Kitty, to stay at her ancestral home, Borders Castle. The grandeur of Partita’s family seat is in stark contrast to Kitty’s home in London where she and her mother, Violet, struggle to maintain appearances despite Kitty’s father gambling away the family money. Kitty is introduced to the aristocracy; a fascinating, decorative and theatrical world. Kitty is enthralled and desperately wants tobe part of this way of life, far removed from the genteel poverty in which she and her mother are forced to exist.  \nBut war breaks out, not only irrevocably changing society, but also the lives of these two beautiful young women. The headstrong Partita and down-toearth Kitty become nurses and selflessly care for the men horrifically injured in the trenches of WWI.  \nThis novel is about the mothers and daughters, sisters and wives left at home holding things together on the homefront and caring for their men. It’s about love and heartbreak, but most importantly of all, the remarkable nature of female friendship.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nAbout the Book  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nPrologue  \nChapter One: The Invitation  \nChapter Two: Christmas at the Castle  \nChapter Three: Dance Cards  \nChapter Four: Comings and Goings  \nChapter Five: The Pirates Club  \nChapter Six: Waterside House  \nChapter Seven: Love Affairs  \nChapter Eight: Cupid’s Victory  \nChapter Nine: Off to War  \nChapter Ten: Goodbye to So Much  \nChapter Eleven: Home for Christmas  \nChapter Twelve: Letters Home  \nChapter Thirteen: Dawn Mourning  \nChapter Fourteen: The Pantomime  \nChapter Fifteen: Another Year Gone  \nChapter Sixteen: When This Lousy War Is Over  \nChapter Seventeen: The Last to Come Home  \nPostscript  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Charlotte Bingham Copyright  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIN DISTANT FIELDS  \nCharlotte Bingham  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is dedicated to those heroes and heroines ofthe Great War (1914–1918) who lie in distant fields, and to those who loved them, and were left behind.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nThey had spent long hours building the sandcastle and its surrounds, and it was truly magnificent. It had an outer wall with four towers, complete with make-believe narrow windows. It had a central portcullis, and a moat, which surrounded a keep, which in turn proudly flew its flag – a long stick to which the inevitable piece of seaweed had been neatly attached.  \nIt seemed, as sandcastles always do, to be impregnable. Once it was complete, and they had duly admired it, ice creams were produced, brought down to the beach on wooden trays. After which the ladies went paddling, while the men – their boaters protecting their fair skin from the sun – stared out to sea, passing binoculars backwards and forwards between them, as they studied the horizon, watching the shipping that passed to and fro between the outer limits of their vision.  \nAnd so the pretty scene continued, until the sun which had shone on them all afternoon, started to sink, and the tide, creeping surreptitiously and almost soundlessly, started to make its way up the beach.  \nPerhaps they had all been enjoying themselves too much; perhaps they had been distracted by the ice creams, or the dreamy preoccupation with the ships and boats. Certainly the arrival of the insistent tide, the onrush of thesea water, seemed to surprise them. Indeed, it seemed almost to be upon them before they were quite able to find their shoes and snatch up their buckets and spades. Excited laughter followed, and before very long everyone on the beach had fled up to the house, leaving the castle to standalone and face the oncoming rush of water.  \nWith the increasing tide first the outer towers succumbed, only for the house, its moat now filled to overflowing, to swiftly follow, taking with it the","cbCaih4ho8vGe1bx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih4ho8vGe1bx","pdf",2020797,405,"English","en",105,"# Prologue\n# Chapter One: The Invitation\n## Chapter Two: Christmas at the Castle\n## Chapter Three: Dance Cards\n## Chapter Four: Comings and Goings\n## Chapter Five: The Pirates Club\n## Chapter Six: Waterside House\n## Chapter Seven: Love Affairs\n## Chapter Eight: Cupid’s Victory\n## Chapter Nine: Off to War\n## Chapter Ten: Goodbye to So Much\n## Chapter Eleven: Home for Christmas\n## Chapter Twelve: Letters Home\n## Chapter Thirteen: Dawn Mourning\n## Chapter Fourteen: The Pantomime\n## Chapter Fifteen: Another Year Gone\n## Chapter Sixteen: When This Lousy War Is Over\n## Chapter Seventeen: The Last to Come Home\n# Postscript","[{\"question\":\"Who are the two best friends at the start of the story?\",\"answer\":\"Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite their very different backgrounds.\"},{\"question\":\"What changes their lives when WWI begins?\",\"answer\":\"War breaks out and irrevocably transforms society, leading both women to become nurses who care for injured men in the trenches.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes does the novel emphasize beyond the romance?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights the sacrifices of mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives on the homefront, while focusing especially on the remarkable nature of female friendship.\"}]","In Distant Fields - 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