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Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife, 49 (2008)

by Nella Last(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846680743 (ISBN13: 9781846680748)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Profile Books

series

Housewife, 49

review 1: I found this Bookcrossing book on the shelves of a lovely local café. Last time I went there I picked up a number of Bookcrossing books with a WWII theme, so this was a great way to follow-on. I intended to borrow Nella Last's War from the library but I have been waiting a while for a book that is supposed to be on the shelf at another branch and decided to make a start. I don't think I'll really know if that has been a mistake until I have read the first volume. What has been a mistake is to leave it so long to read Nella Last's diaries!I find the post-war period quite fascinating and Nella's writing really brings the period to life, all her thoughts 'big' and 'small'. I find it interesting how so many worries which are so current for us appear here too. I don't share Ne... morella's political outlook but she explains herself so well. She conveys brilliantly the difficult atmosphere - peace as an absence of formal hostilities with the relief tempered by the loss of exhilaration that the dangers and common purpose of war had given, and no peace in people's hearts.
review 2: c2008. Echoing a number of reviewers - I certainly found this inspirational and some what comforting. The blurb on the font of the book states a quote from AL Kennedy - whilst sadly I do not know who this particular person is, I wholeheartedly agree with the comment "Tender, intimate, heartbreaking and witty - it grants us the privilege of knowing a stranger's heart". This covers the period my own mother was hitting early married life and it is fascinating to me to be able to expand my mothers own tales with the bits and pieces of this truly fascinating social period. "We don't really matter individually, Harry. It's the pattern on the carpet that matters, and I am beginning the home stretch, I think. I feel as if I see clearer the real values - of doing the things at hand, of liking the things we have rather than having the things we like." He smiled and said, "In other ways, polishing up the dark side."" less

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