Explores many aspects of English domestic life during the war including separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, and the social revolutions of wartime.[...]
It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Vi[...]
The peacetime stories of Mollie Panter-Downes.