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Maisie McCall is lonely when she first leaves home to harvest much-needed timber for the war effort in Scotland's Women's Timber Corps. Soon she's made as many friends as she has calluses on her hands--and she's fallen in love with a wounded Canadian soldier. Leech's somewhat slow fictionalized account of Scottish "lumberjills" during WWII also explores the complexity of forming a relationship with someone coming to terms with a disability.