The carefree days of lazy picnics and house parties end abruptly with the outbreak of war in 1914. In both the "upstairs" world of the Brownlowes and the "downstairs" domain of Mrs Driver's kitchen, the inhabitants of Maple Grange are all affected by the conflict on the Western Front.
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