In 1939 the government asked for ordinary people to write in with journal entries detailing their lives in a programme named Mass Observation. Inspired by the real diarists - Nellie Last, Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Maggie Joy Blunt, and many others - From the Home Front follows the lives of four ordinary people;

Lyle Salt - a newly married man who is ashamed of being unable to fight due to his partial blindness.

Trudy Gowans - a people-watching bus-conductress from the city.

Helen Pernell - a housewife who takes in a lodger after her entire family is fighting or evacuated.

Geordy Hurst - a middle-aged country vicar trying to prevent his son's romance with a wild Land Army girl.

The novel not only details their entries - but also takes us behidn the scenes into their lives - showing us the things they didn't write about, and the thoughts and fears they weren't able to send into a government project.

From the Home Front offers an honest look at ordinary people in extraordinary times - and at WW2 from the perspective of people who really don't know what will happen to them next.