Bought for book group. Would appeal to readers of People's Friend magazine.

On the community book swap shelf.

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Picked up from the free book trolley in Loco Lounge on Monday when I was volunteering at the Social Media Surgery. I've fancied reading this for a while but forgot to ask my friends who were reading it to pass me their copy. Now I've got one of said friend's copies anyway!

This is a fascinating and painstaking work of social history tracing the effect on the lives of all sorts of women of the return of soldiers after the Second World War. With chapters focusing on mothers, wives, widows and daughters, plus special chapters on the men who were POWs in the Far East and on babies born after the war, the book uses powerful first-person narratives to great effect. Some of these are drawn from diaries of the time, published through Mass Observation, but most are drawn from the author's own direct research. They express stories and feelings that often had not been told or told of before the research was being done, and feel very honest.

Some of the editing was a bit off, but an interesting and vital work of research and synthesis.

Passing to a friend who is interested in reading it

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