These Wonderful Rumours! (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
416
Utgivningsdatum
2013-09-12
Förlag
Virago Press Ltd
Medarbetare
Gardiner, Juliet (introd.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
int b Integrated: 20, w photos
Illustrationer
Integrated: 20, int b/w photos
Dimensioner
190 x 127 x 25 mm
Vikt
317 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781844088119

These Wonderful Rumours!

A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

av May Smith
Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-09-12
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May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while recording it faithfully in her diary. 'May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times' The Times
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I grew to love every single detail. This is what it really must have been like to live through the war in Derbyshire on a teacher's salary with no car. I was fascinated -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Spectator * May Smith is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times -- Iain Finlayson * The Times * Well written, witty and absorbing, Smith's chronicles give us an insight into the life and impact of the war in a small English village -- Nilima Marshall * Yorkshire Evening Post *

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May Smith was born in 1914 in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. She trained to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. For many years she kept a diary, with a record of her life and her reading. After her first post at an all age elementary school in Swadlincote, in 1937 she moved to Springfield, a new Swadlincote junior school, where she taught during the Second World War. After marriage and children and a break from full-time teaching, she returned to Springfield, where she remained until her retirement in 1975. She died in 2004.

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