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The Yellow Duster Sisters: A Wartime Childhood
Susan Kennaway
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Description for The Yellow Duster Sisters: A Wartime Childhood
Paperback. Two young girls struggle to make sense of their new world in this eccentric and compelling wartime memoir Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. A Wartime Childhood. 304 pages. Two young girls struggle to make sense of their new world in this eccentric and compelling wartime memoir. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Dimension: 126 x 197 x 20. Weight: 210.
1939. Nine year old Susie and her sister Gyll live in Watford, and all week look forward to their Saturday shopping expedition to Woolworths with their nanny, to buy something nice for Mummy. But as war breaks out in Europe, the girls are evacuated to Africa. Feeling abandoned and alone, the sisters find their new life miserable and get no sympathy from their guardians, who force them to wear patched-up clothes and be in bed by six o'clock. As time passes and letters from home stop arriving, the sisters dream of escape and of returning to idyllic England. Yet when ... Read more
1939. Nine year old Susie and her sister Gyll live in Watford, and all week look forward to their Saturday shopping expedition to Woolworths with their nanny, to buy something nice for Mummy. But as war breaks out in Europe, the girls are evacuated to Africa. Feeling abandoned and alone, the sisters find their new life miserable and get no sympathy from their guardians, who force them to wear patched-up clothes and be in bed by six o'clock. As time passes and letters from home stop arriving, the sisters dream of escape and of returning to idyllic England. Yet when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408822371
SKU
V9781408822371
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Susan Kennaway
Susan Kennaway was born in Watford in 1930. At the onset of the Second World War, she and her sister were evacuated to Africa. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and later at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. She married the writer James Kennaway, and they had four children before his death in a car accident, aged forty. ... Read more
Reviews for The Yellow Duster Sisters: A Wartime Childhood
A moving memoir of two sisters evacuated during the Second World War
Daily Mail
Beautifully moving, offering an insight into the trauma of evacuation and the impact it had on family life
Lifestyle
Wonderfully evocative
Woman’s Own
I have never felt closer to a pair of such young sisters. What a childhood, so full ... Read more
Daily Mail
Beautifully moving, offering an insight into the trauma of evacuation and the impact it had on family life
Lifestyle
Wonderfully evocative
Woman’s Own
I have never felt closer to a pair of such young sisters. What a childhood, so full ... Read more