La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith

I am a big fan of McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Road series ( a new one is on my list of audiobooks to listen to!) and I found this book equally as enjoyable. This is not a part of any series - just one book. La (short for Lavender) is a smart young woman in the 1930's. Although she wasn't really looking, she met her husband while she was attending Cambridge. Life was pretty easy for the couple. Things dramatically change when her husband leaves her ( typical!) and then is killed in an accident. Wanting to escape London, La takes advantage of the kind offer of her in-laws to stay in their country home in a small village. She is there when war breaks out. The story revolves around how this small village dealt with the war. La tended hens for a farmer with bad arthritis. Perhaps this wasn't the most glamorous of war jobs but it was still an important contribution. And that is the point of this book - ordinary people during extraordinary times. I enjoyed the audio book very much.