Goodbye, Gloria: A Child's Wartime Story

The Second World War erupted when the author was a child and, like hundreds of other boys and girls, she was snatched out of the world she knew and thrown in at the deep end, to sink or swim, in another one. A world of stone cottages, iron ranges, strange local accents and weird food, not to mention homes without electricity, hot running water and indoor lavatories.

The author had to learn to live with a new family and to understand their ways and how they expected her to behave. Also, she ...