These Wonderful Rumours!
A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945
May Smith author Juliet Gardiner editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:12th Sep '13
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
* Featured on Virago.co.uk
'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.
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
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 *
ISBN: 9781844088119
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 27mm
Weight: 284g
416 pages