The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace - Softcover
"Her account records the personal adjustments that trickle into daily life amid sweeping international change."—The Washington Post
This collection brings together into a single volume the best of Nella Last's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s.
Patricia Malcomson and Robert Malcolmson are social historians. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.
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Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation. They have edited several MO Diaries, including Nella Last's Peace and Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.
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A fantastic story -- Victoria Wood My gut feeling is that Nella will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth-century English diarists. -- David Kynaston, author of 'Austerity Britain' Whatever her mood, Nella Last has the quality shared by all great diarists: of making her readers feel that however vast the differences between her life and ours, they are easily outweighed by the shared experiences of love and loss, disappointment and hope, that she describes with such artless humanity. * Daily Mail * I relished it ... her personality is so powerful. -- Margaret Forster An excellent correlative to the mantra "everyone has a novel in them". Some people are natural diarists and Nella is one of the best . . . She also used literary language in an entirely naturalistic way. -- Lesley McDowell * Sunday Herald * An epic journal . . . What brings her diaries to life is their unpretentious freshness and honesty. -- Michael Kerrigan * Scotsman *
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- PublisherProfile Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 184668546X
- ISBN 13 9781846685460
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
- EditorMalcolmson Patricia, Malcolmson Robert
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