As green as grass
Smith, Emma, 1923-2016
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Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith and her family move from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. Tragedy strikes when Emma's father suffers a catastrophic breakdown and, in 1939, war becomes a reality. Determined to make a difference to the war effort, Emma chooses to work on canal boats, where she must learn to deal with hard manual labour, a sinking vessel, and buckets instead of toilets. When the war finally ends, Emma's newfound adventurous spirit takes her all over the world: to literary London, where she meets Laurie Lee; to India to film a love story; to France, where she falls helplessly in love. This is the story of an unusual woman determined, against a backdrop of enormous social change, to be a writer, come what may.
Main title:
As green as grass / growing up before, during and after the Second World War / Emma Smith.
Author:
Smith, Emma, 1923-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Leicester [England] Thorpe, 2016.
Collation:
400 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Audience:
Adult.
ISBN:
97814448289171444828916
Dewey class:
941.084$223941.084
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
312767