War At Home Books in Order

War at Home is a six-book sequence that follows a group of connected characters through the First World War, one year at a time. The story begins in 1914 and carries on through 1919, so you see the long, grinding reality of the war, not just the first rush of patriotism and the final armistice celebrations.

The cast spans both the home front and the front line. Some characters go to France, others stay in Britain and try to keep families, jobs, and households functioning while everything is changing. Letters, telegrams, shortages, and sudden bad news become part of the daily rhythm.

The war doesn’t stay overseas, it comes home.

What makes the series work is its mix of big history and small moments. You get the public events, recruitment drives, hospitals, munitions work, shifting social rules, but you also get private choices about love, duty, marriage, and survival. As the years pass, the books keep track of how people harden, adapt, or fall apart.

Harrod-Eagles is especially interested in how war rearranges everyday life. The practical stuff changes first, what you can buy, how you travel, what you wear, who you work alongside, and then the deeper assumptions start to shift. Women take on new kinds of work and new responsibilities, younger people grow up too fast, and older people find themselves having to rethink what “normal” even means.

The titles signal the time jump and the mood. Goodbye Piccadilly opens with the pre-war world still visible, and later books reflect the weariness and the grim humor that people use to get through. Front-line scenes sit alongside domestic ones, so the story never forgets what’s at stake, but it also remembers that most of the war is waiting.

The later books don’t treat 1918 as a clean ending. Coming home can be as complicated as going away, and the final stretch of the series looks at the emotional hangover of the conflict, relief mixed with loss, old relationships changed beyond repair, and new ones formed under pressure.

Because each novel covers a specific slice of time, you can feel the series moving forward even when the characters are stuck waiting for the next letter or the next bit of news. The best way to read is in order, starting with Goodbye Piccadilly, so relationships and long-running worries land with full weight by the time the war ends and the hard work of living after it begins.