TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hey,Kathleen
AU  - Malcolmson,Patricia E.
AU  - Malcolmson,Robert W.
TI  - The view from the corner shop: the diary of a wartime shop assistant 
SN  - 9781471154010
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Hey, Kathleen.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - Dewsbury
KW  - Grocers
KW  - Yorkshire
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - George VI, 1936-1952
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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