These Wonderful Rumours!
a young schoolteacher's wartime diaries 1939-1945
$40.89
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2013
Summary
A Village Diary: Love and Life During Wartime
May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two. Nightly, sirens wail as the young men of the village leave to fight. Yet, ordinary life continues: May shops, plays tennis, takes holidays, and even falls in love, recording it all in her diary.
“May is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times” - The Times
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088119 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844088111 |
| Author: | May Smith, Juliet Gardiner |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2013 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
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
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 - Spectator - Ysenda Maxtone Graham
May Smith is simply a joy, a bright spark in dark times - The Times - Iain FinlaysonWell written, witty and absorbing, Smith’s chronicles give us an insight into the life and impact of the war in a small English village - Yorkshire Evening Post - Nilima MarshallAbout The Author
May Smith
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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