- Genre:biography & autobiography
- Sub-genre:Historical
- Language:English
- Pages:130
- eBook ISBN:9781623099565
Book details
Overview
Who is that little girl?
She’s a “Dirty Evacuee”, just one of the many children scooped up from their London homes to escape the bombing during World War II. And yes, she also happens to be your author!
How to Survive World War and a Crazy Irish Mother will let you relive the experiences, both humorous and touching, of this shy little six-year-old as she survives the war along with a somewhat painful adolescence.
A fast and easy read, this humorous often bittersweet story of a disjointed childhood and equally disjointed adolescence spent with a dysfunctional Irish mother, loving relatives and an array of unwelcoming strangers, is impossible to put down!
Description
Cast adrift at six years of age, our child of war embarks on a succession of chaotic postings to unwelcoming foster parents in the English countryside, as well as a stint in a strict Catholic boarding school, returning home intermittently throughout the war years.
A taxing experience for any small girl, made even more taxing by the double whammy of a decidedly erratic and dismissive Irish mother! A mother who felt duty-bound to constantly point out that her child, saddled with spectacles from an early age, would never be fortunate enough to inherit her good looks. (Believe me, they weren’t that good!)