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90s teen book ID

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PenCreed · 20/04/2022 15:01

Back in the 90s I read two or three books by the same author, two set during WW1 and one set in Ireland, immediately after the war, at the time of the Black and Tans.

The WW1 books (I think they were a pair) were about girl/boy twins who were servants at a big house, and friendly with the son of the house who was about their age. The girl became a nurse, I think she may have married the son of the house at the end of the second book (or been about to). The boy worked with the horses.

The Ireland book had a cousin who had returned from the war and was slightly traumatised, and lots about the local situation from the POV of the landed gentry. There were also two girls who hadn't really been friends much before finding their own path and not just getting married.

Does anyone recognise these and know what books they were? The Ireland one is probably the more unusual!

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Needmorelego · 20/04/2022 15:42

Possibly this one?

90s teen book ID
pollyhemlock · 21/04/2022 17:27

Yes, this is Linda Newbery’s World War 1 trilogy. The Irish one is called The Wearing of the Green.

Needmorelego · 21/04/2022 18:00

@pollyhemlock 'Wearing of the Green' was the title I first thought of but when I googled it all I got was big serious history books.
What was the other in the trilogy? Or was it just the two?

pollyhemlock · 21/04/2022 18:14

@Needmorelego The second one is called The Kind Ghosts

Needmorelego · 21/04/2022 19:13

Ah thanks @pollyhemlock . It's all coming back to me now.

PenCreed · 22/04/2022 12:13

Brilliant, thank you! I've just looked at her website and the only one of the books listed is Some Other War, presumably the others are out of print.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers these!

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