The view from the corner shop : the diary of a wartime shop assistant /
Hey, Kathleen,
The view from the corner shop : the diary of a wartime shop assistant / View from the corner shop : the diary of a Yorkshire shop assistant in wartime Kathleen Hey ; edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson. - 335 pages ; 20 cm
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling together on the surface ('Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door...', she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath. The shortage of food and the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread, which dominates conversation in the town, more so even than the danger of bombardment and the war itself. Sometimes events take a comic turn. A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers, and Kathleen writes, 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night and use them all up.
9781471154010 1471154017
2016417964
Hey, Kathleen.--Diaries.
World War, 1939-1945--England--Dewsbury.
Grocers--England--Yorkshire--Diaries.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
Diaries.
The view from the corner shop : the diary of a wartime shop assistant / View from the corner shop : the diary of a Yorkshire shop assistant in wartime Kathleen Hey ; edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson. - 335 pages ; 20 cm
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid and compelling read is the immediacy of her writing. People were pulling together on the surface ('Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door...', she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath. The shortage of food and the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread, which dominates conversation in the town, more so even than the danger of bombardment and the war itself. Sometimes events take a comic turn. A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers, and Kathleen writes, 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night and use them all up.
9781471154010 1471154017
2016417964
Hey, Kathleen.--Diaries.
World War, 1939-1945--England--Dewsbury.
Grocers--England--Yorkshire--Diaries.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.
Diaries.