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Consequences of War
- Author
- Betty Burton
- Narrator
- Emma Powell
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 31 May 2018
- Run Time
- 13 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Generational sagas
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In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband's last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation during the war. Like other women, she embraces the camaraderie previously held back by gender and class. For Georgia, for rich, spoiled Eve, for salt-of-the-earth Dolly, life will never be the same again.
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- Author
- Betty Burton
- Narrator
- Emma Powell
- Duration
- 13 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781528810753
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Generational sagas
Synopsis
Everyone remembered the summer of '39 as golden and strange. Golden because it was the driest on record; strange because people were burrowing holes and roofing them with iron. Waiting for the bombs…In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband's last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation during the war. Like other women, she embraces the camaraderie previously held back by gender and class. For Georgia, for rich, spoiled Eve, for salt-of-the-earth Dolly, life will never be the same again.
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