PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians who have edited several diaries for publication. They have edited three different volumes of the diaries of Nella Last, the inspiration for the award-winning drama Housewife, 49: Nella Last's Peace, Nella Last in the 1950s and the collected edition The Diaries of Nella Last. Patricia and Robert's other books include The View from the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime (the diary of Mass Observation writer Kathleen Hey) and Women at the Ready, a history of the Women's Voluntary Service on the Home Front during the Second World War. They live in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, the diary of student nurse Kathleen Johnson opens a fascinating window into the small joys and terrible tragedies of World War Two. Kathleen's vivid writing transports us from the wards of the hospital, where she looks after wounded soldiers, comforts frightened children and cares for injured civilians, to her off-duty breaks when she thrills at dancing with American GIs while missing her fiance in a German prisoner of war camp. From her delight at a real egg to her amazement at the new wonder drug penicillin, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military Hospital Praise for Nella Last's Peace, from the same editors: 'A vivid, intimate account of life in austerity Britain. Superb.' David Kynaston, author of Austerity Britain 'Extraordinary - tender, intimate, striking, heartbreaking and witty - it grants us the lovely and dignified privilege of knowing a stranger's heart.' A. L. Kennedy 'A social document of extraordinary interest and value.' D J Taylor 'A fantastic story' Victoria Wood
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