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Loading... Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942 (1985)by Joyce Dennys
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) clue | Sep 13, 2022 |   ) dcmr | Jul 4, 2017 | By sally tarbox on 7 Nov. 2012 Format: Paperback Delightful little book featuring Henrietta, wife of a Devon GP. In letters to a Childhood Friend serving in France, she shows the lighter side of the early years of WW2. Featuring such wonderful scenes as her daughter's preparations for the expected evacuee: 'Even going so far as to lay a bar of chocolate on the lonely pillow and fish her old teddy-bear out of a box in the attic. At half-past five a youth of sixteen, just under six feet tall, was deposited on our doorstep.' And 'a most enjoyable rehearsal of an air-raid warning...You would have thought that siren was a herald of good tidings instead of possible death and destruction...People in the streets were wreathed in smiles and some were doubled up with laughter...I haven't seen this place so gay since the Coronation'. Rationing, the black-out, the struggle to procure meat for the pet dog - I thoroughly enjoyed it. ( ) starbox | Jul 10, 2016 | The humour is lovely, the characters endearing and the writing good. Naturally, WW II was a serious time, but there is almost always a time and place for humour to help people cope, and I think this is a good one. This book ends during 1941, and I’m waiting for the second in this two book series to arrive to read the letters from the rest of the war. ( ) Karin7 | May 25, 2016 | I read it in 2 sessions and will read the sequel as soon as possible. It is very important to find out if Faith marries the Conductor. ( ) rosiezbanks | Jun 15, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely what she thinks of him; the terrifyingly efficient Mrs Savernack, who relishes the opportunity to sit on umpteen committees and boss everyone around; flighty, flirtatious Faith who is utterly preoccupied with the latest hats and flashing her shapely legs; and then there's Charles, Henrietta's hard-working husband who manages to sleep through a bomb landing in their neighbour's garden. With life turned upside down under the shadow of war, Henrietta chronicles the dramas, squabbles and loyal friendships that unfold in her affectionate letters to her 'dear childhood friend' Robert. Warm, witty and perfectly observed, Henrietta's War brings to life a sparkling community of determined troupers who pull together to fight the good fight with patriotic fervour and good humour.Henrietta's War is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers. No library descriptions found. 
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