This Time For Keeps - Hardcover

It's 1943. When Babs Scott is left homeless, after losing her beloved parents in an air raid, The Land Army offers her a new life away from the bombed streets of Rotherhithe. Working on a farm in Sussex, with the support of fellow Land Girl Lydi Wells, Babs starts to heal. But the arrival of Gino and Demetrio, two Italian prisoners of war, undermines her safe world. And then Pete, an RAF rear gunner, whom she has fallen in love with, dies and Babs is once again grief-stricken. Back in Rotherhithe after the war, a foolish mistake one night changes Babs' life for ever. She fears she has lost her one chance of happiness, but a letter from abroad offers an unexpected ray of hope...

Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen, and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family. She is the author of eight hugely popular sagas set in Rotherhithe.