These Wondrous Rumours! A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries

Virago Press, 2013. Sticker at bottom right corner of front endpaper, otherwise good secondhand condition.

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