Violet Town

Violet Town is a captivating story of forbidden love and loss in the time of war.

It’s 1939, and the Second World War has just begun.

Catherine Hawkins, an orphan and scholarship student with dreams of Oxford University, is entering her final year at Dashwood Boarding School in the English countryside.

Intelligent, ambitious and determined to shape a future beyond the limitations of her upbringing, Cate has little time for distraction. But when charismatic American student Joseph Hume arrives at the school, Cate finds herself pulled between the life she has carefully planned and a love that threatens to upend everything.

Set against the uncertainty of wartime England, Violet Town is a sweeping historical debut exploring ambition, identity, class, first love and loss.