The Diaries of Nella Last
Writing in War and Peace
$47.07
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2012
Summary
‘I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person . can possibly have value.’ So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846685460 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184668546X |
| Author: | Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 441g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 136mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
A fantastic story – Victoria Wood
My gut feeling is that Nella will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth-century English diarists. – David Kynaston, author of ‘Austerity Britain’
Whatever her mood, Nella Last has the quality shared by all great diarists: of making her readers feel that however vast the differences between her life and ours, they are easily outweighed by the shared experiences of love and loss, disappointment and hope, that she describes with such artless humanity. * Daily Mail *
I relished it … her personality is so powerful. – Margaret Forster
An excellent correlative to the mantra “everyone has a novel in them”. Some people are natural diarists and Nella is one of the best … She also used literary language in an entirely naturalistic way. – Lesley McDowell * Sunday Herald *
An epic journal … What brings her diaries to life is their unpretentious freshness and honesty. – Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman *
Patricia Malcolmson
Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation. They have edited several MO Diaries, including Nella Last’s Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.
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