Product Description

Like any street, April Grove in Portsmouth has its good and bad neighbours, its gossip, scandal and romance. But the outbreak of war in 1939 changes everything - especially for the children. Uprooted from their familiar urban existence they are evacuated (some happily, some not) to the country. Then there are the teenagers whose first loves are accelerated and intensified by the threat of separation; and men and women, too old to fight, who hold the life of the street together. Based on the author's own childhood memories of growing up near Portsmouth, this is a novel which shows us what England was really like then - a story told with such nostalgia and charm that you leave the world it describes longing for the chance to return.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168563 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 375 pages

About the Author
Lilian Harry grew up in Portsmouth and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor with three ginger cats and a black and silver miniature schnauzer with a fan club bigger than that of her mistress. Her daughter and two grandchildren live nearby.

Customer Reviews

very good,compulsive reading.
A very good read especially as I have live in Portsmouth,& could relate to all the places that was mention.I read all the books in this set they give a very good view of what life was lie at the time,the author made you feel as if you were part of the family,especially when the troops were resucued from the beaches of Dunkirk. A great read,highly recommended

Pompey & circumstance
Certainly an interesting read and fascinating in its descriptions of how folk really felt deep down when war was announced. My heart grieved for the poor little evacuees being terrorised by the elderly spinsters, that story was almost more traumatic than Hitler's actions. If I were to criticise, I felt it kept going over & over the same ground, but maybe's that's just how it was in those days. Interesting & thought provoking.