![]() However, most families have some secrets and the author bravely reveals those too. These were times when families and friends were truly there for each other, the local bobby knew everyone and mums were to be found in the kitchen making jam and cooking Victoria sandwiches. Life went on, and the incredible community spirit of those post war years are brought wonderfully to life throughout these pages. I could almost imagine being her, a small frightened child, hearing the air raid sirens going off and huddling in the damp, musky shelter with her heavily pregnant mother, and her Nanny Rose.The price of peace was appalling, and shaped the future of the author and her family, as it did for so many people. Immediately, through her vivid descriptive writing I was catapulted back through the decades to wartime Britain. ![]() Jackie Skingley, the author of this fascinating memoir begins by taking her readers back to her earliest recollections, bitter sweet childhood memories of Christmas 1944 in Reigate, Surrey. ![]()
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