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Todd, Janet M, 1942-
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Mothers and daughters -- England -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Todd, Janet M, 1942-
Mothers and daughters -- England -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Don
't you
know
there
's a
war
on
? / Janet Todd.
by
Todd, Janet M, 1942-
Fentum Press, 2019.
Call #:
FICTION TOD
Subjects
Mothers and daughters -- England -- Fiction.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
England -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781909572072 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Don
't you
know
there
is a
war
on
?
Description:
279 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary:
The Second World
War
is over. England is losing its empire, world status and old elite values. The Empire strikes back with mass immigration, while the government soothes its people with welfare, the NHS, televisions and refrigerators. At the centre of the novel is the contemptuous Joan Kite, at odds with all the changes imposed
on
the country in the post
war
period. Shut up in a house with her
only
daughter, she refuses to compromise and adapt, pouring vitriol
on
anyone who seeks to enter their lives. After years of frugality, patriotism, service and excitement, she is angry at the contracted existence she’s been delivered and at the manner in which her aspirations to upper-middle-class culture have been thwarted. When her daughter is threatened, she begins a diary to investigate her past before and during the
war
. In it she gives rein to a flamboyant imaginary life and to an energetic loathing for the reality of a diminished England. During the freak hot summer of 1976, as water is rationed and ladybirds invade their home, the intimacy of mother and daughter intensifies. Their lives unravel within the claustrophobia of their semi-detached house behind closed velvet curtains.
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