"Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what color lipstick we adore, what body shape is "all the rage". The story of female adornment from 1860-1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long...
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            Nicolson Virginia
    
In 1942 Cora Johnston is grieving over the death of her young husband, torpedoed in the Atlantic; Aileen Morris is intercepting Luftwaffe communications during the siege of Malta -- and Clara Milburn, whose son was captured after Dunkirk, is waiting, and waiting ... We tend ...
Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.