Now on at the Arts Theatre. A remarkable and sparkling piece of theatre celebrating an extraordinary episode in British history the Women's Land Army of World War II. The story of four women who sign up to become Land Girls in a bid to do their best for the War effort. Torn from their families and bereft of all basic home comfort Vera Poppy Margie and Peggy have to deal not only with the hardships of farming life and the pressures of war but also with being outsiders in new surroundings. Paperback
Based on hundreds of letters from and interviews with the original Land Girls along with songs from the period Lilies on the Land is a revealing funny wonderfully moving and utterly captivating portrait of some of Britain's pluckiest unsung heroes.
