𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦
Cover of Diary of a Wartime Affair

Diary of a Wartime Affair

✍ Scribed by Bates, Doreen

Book ID
109633229
Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780241250075

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

'Unflinchingly honest... this diary is exceptional' Elizabeth Buchan

'Tuesday 23 October, 1934
Another glorious sunny day. Lunch in Kens Gdns. E had not slept well "as I longed and longed for you". It made me happy that he wanted me. I suppose that is mean. He said, "I could pick you out in the dark from fifty women . . ." '

****The diary of Doreen Bates is a candid, spellbinding portrait of a gutsy young woman working in London in the years before and during the Second World War, as well as an extraordinary account of her long affair with an older, married colleague - one that brazenly challenged the strict conventions of the day.

'Startlingly frank and readable' David Kynaston

'Absolutely engrossing' Virginia Nicholson

'Astute, passionate, remarkably intimate, showing us the day-to-day picture of a long relationship' Guardian

πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

cover
Diary of a Wartime Affair
✍ Bates, Doreen πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2016 πŸ› Penguin Books Ltd 🌐 English βš– 3 MB

'Unflinchingly honest... this diary is exceptional' Elizabeth Buchan **** **'Tuesday 23 October, 1934** **Another glorious sunny day. Lunch in Kens Gdns. E had not slept well "as I longed and longed for you". It made me happy that he wanted me. I suppose that is mean. He said, "I could pick yo

A DAVAO WARTIME DIARY
A DAVAO WARTIME DIARY
✍ Michaelangelo Ebro-Dakudao πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1994 βš– 846 KB
cover
The Northern Front: a Wartime Diary
✍ Glass Charles McCullin Don πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2013 πŸ› Saqi 🌐 English βš– 472 KB

This is the Iraq war as it really started, amid lies, confusion and profound distrust between the United States and its Iraqi allies. Charles Glass, who first covered the Kurds in 1974 and was in Iraq for their failed rebellion in 1991, depicts the tense epoch that sowed the seeds of America’s

cover
The Blitz: A Wartime Girl's Diary 1940-1941
✍ Cross, Vince πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2011 πŸ› Scholastic 🌐 English βš– 360 KB

"As Dad went out for the evening shift, he looked up and said grimly 'If they're ever going to come, it'll be on a night like this.' And sure enough the first air raid warning came at a few minutes past nine." It's 1940. Edie Benson lives happily with her family in Lewisham, London. Little does she

cover
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo
✍ Filipovic, Zlata πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2010 πŸ› Penguin Group US 🌐 English βš– 956 KB

When Zlata's Diary_ was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to _The Diary of Anne Frank_ , both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typi