These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 (Paperback)

May Smith (author), Juliet Gardiner (author of introduction)

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Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 12/09/2013

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Synopsis

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

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844088119
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 284 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 27 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

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