A Rose for the ANZAC Boys:

This is a really lovely and heartwarming story. It is another fantastic novel from Jackie French about a young 16 year old girl and her friends who start a free canteen in London to escape the boredom of boarding school, offering meat, hot drinks, breads and medical help. Midge, her nickname everyone calls her by, then starts to help drive the emergency vehicles and ambulance cars as she is one of the only women that can drive. Midge learnt to drive out on her old farmm named Glen Donal, a sheep farm in NZ.

While I am only half way through this book it is a wonderful novel, very detailed and well researched. The saddest part so far would have to be when Captain Harry dies.

You see, Midge meets this lovely young man at the bakery, a captain, who she falls in love with (and he falls in love with her too!). One day he plans to visit her on her birthday when he unexpectedly gets called in at the front and killed in action :( Midge is terribly upset but still she moves on, continues to work hard and I am up to the bit where she meets another lovely young man, a friend of Captain Harry, who also becomes her good friend and penpal!