Description There is so much War News in News Bulletins, in Newspapers, and so much talk about the war that I do not intend to write about it in my diary.
Major Tim\'s amazing escape from Dunkirk is high drama superbly handled, and her word pictures are both lifelike and lively." Manchester Evening News. . .
This new edition features an introduction by Alexander Mc Call Smith."She admirably preserves her lightness of touch, with a tinge of melancholy added, which perfectly suits the mood of 1940." Glasgow Herald"This is not merely a war book to which cheerfulness keeps breaking in, it is a book of cheerfulness from which the war cannot be kept out .
Tim returns in two subsequent novels, Mrs Tim Gets a Job (1947) and Mrs Tim Flies Home (1952), all back in print for the first time in decades from Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press.
Mrs.
Tim does indeed carry on--in inimitable style.
From her first air raid and a harrowing but hilarious false alarm about a German invasion, to volunteering at the regiment\'s "Comforts Depot," guiding the romantic destinies of her pretty houseguest and an injured soldier, and making a flying visit to a blacked-out, slightly bedraggled London with its fighting spirit intact, Mrs.
With her husband stationed in France, Hester finds plenty to keep her busy on the Home Front.
Tim back in this delightful sequel, to lift spirits and boost morale in the early days of World War II.
In 1941, Stevenson brought Mrs.
Tim of the Regiment, published in 1932.
Tim" as she is affectionately known to friends of her military husband--was first introduced to readers in Mrs.
Stevenson\'s charming fictional alter-ego, Hester Christie--or "Mrs.
E.
Bestselling author D. though it is almost impossible to escape from the anxieties which it brings. . .
Indeed my diary is a sort of escape from the war .
Description There is so much War News in News Bulletins, in Newspapers, and so much talk about the war that I do not intend to write about it in my diary
