Also the Hills By Frances Parkinson Keyes

This is a novel published by Keyes in the early years of World War Two. It is a story about the Farmans, a New England family, who have a successful farm but who are simple people. They work hard and dont care about creature comforts. Daniel and Serena have 3 grown up children, Jenness, a very beautiful but rather flighty girl, who has left the farm and gone to work in Washington DC as a secretary to a wealthy politican, Jerome, who left a banking job, to join the army.. and Judith, who is still living at home, and who has trained as a district nurse. Judith is engaged to a local farmer, Dexter, who was injured as a child and cannot join the army so he is dedicating himself to farming and local affairs, to make up for this. Judith loves him but she takes her nursing job very seriously, and upsets Dexter in the beginning of the book by telling him that she has to travel away from their local town to nurse some children. He is hoping that they can get married soon but when she comes back she tells him that she wants to join up as an army nurse. More will follow.