A Farthing Will Do by Lillian Harry (audio)
5/10, no 6/10
Listened to this in the car, so it is predictably easy and a lacking in depth.
It might have been cleverer than I thought because the values it portrayed did seem to be those of the 1940s, and so I couldn't work out whether it was written recently or back then.
Follows three women's lives just as the second World War is ending. Everyone in this small rural village has to make adjustments as the men come home from the war, the evacuee children start to go back to the big cities and the land-girls go home.
Actually, I'm just upgrading it from 5 to 6 out of 10. This book made me think about women's lives, roles and occupations and how the war and the end of the war had its impact. Women had to be seen differently, after they had been keeping industry, farming and public services running in the duration of the war. But how would men deal with this on their return?
Easy listening. Shame about the lengthy and silly focus on a love affair that was going nowhere. Serves me right for choosing easy books for the car. But at least it didn't cause any motoring accidents by distracting me too much.
5/10, no 6/10
Listened to this in the car, so it is predictably easy and a lacking in depth.
It might have been cleverer than I thought because the values it portrayed did seem to be those of the 1940s, and so I couldn't work out whether it was written recently or back then.
Follows three women's lives just as the second World War is ending. Everyone in this small rural village has to make adjustments as the men come home from the war, the evacuee children start to go back to the big cities and the land-girls go home.
Actually, I'm just upgrading it from 5 to 6 out of 10. This book made me think about women's lives, roles and occupations and how the war and the end of the war had its impact. Women had to be seen differently, after they had been keeping industry, farming and public services running in the duration of the war. But how would men deal with this on their return?
Easy listening. Shame about the lengthy and silly focus on a love affair that was going nowhere. Serves me right for choosing easy books for the car. But at least it didn't cause any motoring accidents by distracting me too much.
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