Synopsis: From the Home Front

In 1939 the government asked for ordinary people to write in with journal entries detailing their lives in a programme named Mass Observation. Inspired by the real diarists - Nellie Last, Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Maggie Joy Blunt, and many others - From the Home Front follows the lives of four ordinary people.

On the surface, there could not be four more different people writing such a journal:

Trudy Gowans - a young bus-conductress in London.

Edith Pernell - a forty year old widow with evacuated children, returning to her family home to rebuild her life.

Lyle Salt - a young man who is unable to fight due to partial blindness and who works as a travelling salesman.

Geordy Hurst - a country vicar who fills his journals with good-humoured anecdotes about his lazy son and scary wife.

The novel not only details their entries - but also takes us behind the scenes into their lives - showing us the things they didn't write about, and the thoughts and fears they didn't feel able to send into a government project.

Through this we discover that unknown to them all, they are each closely connected and yet don't know that they are all writer's in this social experiment. Through their stories, we see how each action they make affects the next person - and leads to tradgedy for one of our writers.

From the Home Front offers an honest look at ordinary people in extraordinary times - and at WW2 from the perspective of people who really don't know what will happen to them next.