Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Description for Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes Paperback. a rich seam of social history - Cassandra Jardine * The Daily Telegraph * Ambitious, humane and absorbing - Anne Chisholm * Spectator * This story belongs to us all - Kathryn Hughes * The Mail On Sunday * Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller - Bel Mooney * The Daily Mail * Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic - Artemis Cooper * Evening Standard * Where Nicholson scores over other histories and memoirs is that her vivid narrative is set firmly in the context of the social conventions of the time.this lovely book is poignant, hilarious and inspiring - Edwina Currie * The Times * An acclaimed account of this period. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Ī deeply moving account of female courage both at home and overseas during the six brutal years of war.the joy of Virginia Nicholson's book is the way she has plaited scores of individual stories into a richly textured account of the many forms that female courage can take. She is married to a writer, has three children and lives in Sussex. Her books include the acclaimed social history Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, both published by Penguin in 20. She studied at Cambridge University and lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television. 'Vividly entertaining, uplifting and humbling, Millions Like Us deserves to be a bestseller' Bel Mooney, The Daily Mail 'Passionate, fascinating, profoundly sympathetic' Artemis Cooper, Evening Standard Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex. And how they would never be the same again. Millions Like Us tells the story of how these women loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared how they re-made their world in peacetime. But in conditions of 'Total War' millions of women - in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences.

Millions Like Us by Virginia Nicholson