My mum grew up in a poor family and lived through the blitz, and I wish I'd thought to ask her more about it. So now instead, I'm reading everything I can get my hands on about women's lives during the war.
Rather than spies or factory women, this one is about wives and mothers in their own homes, coping with severe rationing and the risk of losing everything... their family, their home, even their life.
The cover is very much of the period, women in 'make do and mend' clothes, young lad in shorts (even though the autumn leaves are falling) and Union Jack bunting, maybe celebrating the end of the war.
Rather than spies or factory women, this one is about wives and mothers in their own homes, coping with severe rationing and the risk of losing everything... their family, their home, even their life.
The cover is very much of the period, women in 'make do and mend' clothes, young lad in shorts (even though the autumn leaves are falling) and Union Jack bunting, maybe celebrating the end of the war.