T'is a Pleasure - Kathy McKay - Bog

Gracie, Mia and the two sisters Vicky and Sally Soon make themselves at home in the Hidden Manor and Marshalls Farm, Vicky is soon married to the owner of the Farm Amos Marshall, but he is a very ill man, she tends him as well as she can, and grieves for him constantly. When Amos her husband dies, she is overcome and afraid that she might have to leave the farm. That is a time when so many Irish men are looking for a way to stay in England. Vicky takes on a group of them, they are very hard working but she is amazed to find that three of them form a musical group they play their instruments and sing near to the public houses. Vicky houses and feeds them, but for a time they are earning their own money. Vicky falls in love with Paddy they have to be very imaginative to keep the Marshalls Farm. The name Marshall is a problem but they soon overcome that. There are many more problems to come they find that they have to be very clever with the truth.