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The Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Paperback, Main)
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The Diaries of Nella Last - Writing in War and Peace (Paperback, Main)
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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary
person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her
diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of
thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her
vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and
its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the
basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood.
The Diaries of Nella Last, brings together into a single volume the
best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of
new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the
everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's
transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often
humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of
what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and
1950s. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask
were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. As David Kynaston said on
Radio 4, she 'will come to be seen as one of the major twentieth
century English diarists.'
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