Thistle House

Thistle House is the house in which Charlotte and her sister, Rose, lived when Emmy and Julia stayed with them during the war. The house had been in Charlotte’s late husband’s family for more than one hundred years. Emmy returned to this house after she contracted pneumonia while trying to find her sister in London. She lived there until she married Jonah MacFarland and the two moved to America. In Charlotte’s will, she left Thistle House to Emmy, who was then known as Isabel. Isabel and her family later moved to Thistle House. It is in this house that Kendra interviews Isabel about her memories of World War II and the Blitz. It is the same house in which Gwen, Isabel’s daughter, found Isabel’s box of bridal sketches and returned them to Julia without her mother’s knowledge.

The Cotswolds, England

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