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Many young women 'long to put the clock back to the post-war years when life seemed prettier and nicer.' In this book Jessica Mann demolishes such preconceptions about their mothers' or grandmothers' young days, showing that in reality life was uglier and nastier. Born just before WW2, she grew up in the post-war era of austerity, restrictions and hypocrisy, before anyone even dreamed of Women's Lib. The Fifties Mystique is both a personal mem...

The moving and remarkable story of the wartime evacuees who were sent abroad by their families

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In der Bucht von St Ives in Cornwall, England, warnt Godrevys Licht die Schiffe vor einem unter der Wasseroberfläche verborgenen Riff. Seit 1859 hat dieser Leuchtturm in den Gemälden mehrerer Generationen der Malerschule von St Ives eine Rolle gespielt. Er inspirierte auch die junge Virginia Woolf, die in ihrer Kindheit hier ihre Ferien verbracht hatte, ihre Erinnerungen im Roman To the Lighthouse zu verarbeiten. Michael Martens Bilder stellen...

Tamara Hoyland, formerly an undercover operative for government intelligence, has been a blameless wife, mother and archaeologist for nearly twenty years. When her father-in-law dies, Tamara is left to deal with the funeral arrangements. It was a natural death ...wasn't it?

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