The characters all belong to the Women's Land Army during the Second World War. The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization, active during both World Wars, that recruited women ("Land Girls") to work in agriculture, replacing men sent to fight and ensuring food supplies during national shortages. These women performed demanding tasks like ploughing, harvesting, milking cows, and pest control, wearing distinctive uniforms of green jerseys, brown breeches, and hats.
The closest city to the farm is Exeter. Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon in South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 58 km northeast of Plymouth and 105 km southwest of Bristol.
At the end of the book Georgine has decided to volunteer at the Air Transport Auxiliary. The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British civilian organisation set up at the start of the Second World War. The ATA ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, maintenance units, scrapyards, and active service squadrons and airfields, but not to naval aircraft carriers. It also flew service personnel on urgent duty from one place to another and performed some air ambulance work. Notably, around 10% of its pilots were women, and from 1943 they received equal pay to their male colleagues, a first for the British government.
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