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Title: AS GREEN AS GRASS
GROWING UP BEFORE, DURING & AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
By: Emma Smith
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1408835630
ISBN 13: 9781408835630
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 31 July, 2014
Pages: 320
Description: The new memoir from the author of "Maidens' Trip" and "The Great Western Beach"; a remarkable story of a young woman growing up against the backdrop of the Second World War, and postwar life in India, Paris and bohemian Chelsea.
Synopsis: Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma's father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality. Emma's sister Pam at once enlists with the WAAF and Jim, her politically minded brother, after initially declaring himself a pacifist, joins the RAF. But what should Emma, aged only sixteen, do? Secretarial collage equips her for a job with MI5 but it's dull work and Emma yearns for fresh air. She is rescued by a scheme taking on girls as crew for canal boats. Freedom! The war over, Emma travels to India with a documentary film company, lives in Chelsea, falls in love in France and spends time in Paris where she sets about mending a broken heart by writing her first novel.Sitting beside the Seine during a heatwave with her typewriter on her knees, she is unwittingly snapped by legendary photographer Robert Doisneau. The zest, thirst for life and buoyant spirits of Emma, as she recalls in evocative detail the quality of England in the thirties and forties give As Green as Grass the feel of a ready-made classic.
Illustrations: illustrations (black and white)
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Returns: Returnable
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