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335 pages ; 20 cm. |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling together on the surface ('Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door...', she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath. The shortage of food and the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread, which dominates conversation in the town, more so even than the danger of bombardment and the war itself. Sometimes events take a comic turn. A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers, and Kathleen writes, 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night and use them all up. |
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Hey, Kathleen. -- Diaries.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Dewsbury.
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Grocers -- England -- Yorkshire -- Diaries.
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Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952.
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Malcolmson, Patricia E., 1944- editor.
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Malcolmson, Robert W., editor.
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| Cover Title |
View from the corner shop : the diary of a Yorkshire shop assistant in wartime |
| ISBN |
9781471154010 (pbk.) |
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1471154017 (pbk.) |
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