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Miss Ranskill Comes Home (1946)

by Barbara Euphan Todd(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1903155363 (ISBN13: 9781903155363)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Persephone Books

review 1: I had read a blog recommending this, so decided to give it a go. I initially found the return to England difficult to relate to - surely no one would just let a castaway go with no identity card or coupons to survive during the war? - but rather then turn into a farce about this, Our heroine's identity is quickly established and the novel focuses on how she adapts to life back in England and the war restrictions. She has a very different outlook to others - she'd rather eat all the butter ration on one day and then go without than eek it out and not enjoy it. She is accompanied in all this by memories of the island and above all the Carpenter. It's a delightful read.
review 2: Miss Ranskill: so admirable in her drive to survive, whether being marooned on a dese... morert island or washed up into wartime Britain. But so moving too, in her reaching out to make unlikely alliances, a ship's carpenter or a small boy. It is funny, I love Miss Ranskill's friend, the headgirl who has never grown up and treats the war like a hockey match to the death. I have to say I found it pretty sad too, that here the war doesn't bring out the best in people, doesn't bring them closer together, doesn't make them inclined to risk honesty. Miss Ranskill finds happiness in the end tho! less

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