Synopsis of 'Foxden Acres' 1st Novel

FOXDEN ACRES

By

MADALYN MORGAN

New Years Eve 1939 twenty-year-old Bess Dudley bumps into James Foxden while she is leaving the library at Foxden Hall.  James is the heir to Foxden Acres, Bess is the daughter of Foxden's Second Horseman.    

Bess is a scholarship girl, lodging at Mrs McAllister’s boarding house while training in London to become a teacher.  She has the brains, the determination and the ambition to transcend the barriers of class and gender.   With offers of a teaching job in London and Lowarth Bess opts for Lowarth, to be near to James who has joined the RAF and is stationed locally, but when she is told by Lady Foxen that James is betrothed to the socially acceptable Annabel Hadleigh Bess returns to London and her first teaching post.

When war breaks out and London schoolchildren are evacuated, Bess leaves her job and, at James’s request, returns to her beloved Foxden to organise a Land Army of young women.  While James trains to be an RAF officer at nearby Bruntingthorpe, Bess earns the loyalty and respect of her Land Girls.  Soon the Blitz is setting London skies aflame.  Even sleepy South Leicestershire is scarred by war when Polish airmen crash land in a Foxden field.  Mrs McAllister’s house is blitzed to rubble and traditional social barriers come crashing down when Flying Officer James Foxden, RAF, asks Bess Dudley, the stable hand’s daughter, to marry him on his return from a dangerous operation over Germany.   James doesn’t return.  

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Foxden Acres traces the fortunes of close-knit Foxden families and scattered London friends.  Against the brutal background of World War II, the tipping wing of a Wellington bomber cements the love of Bess Dudley and James Foxden.    

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