Miss Carter's War
Synopsis
It is 1948 and Britain is struggling to recover from the Second World War. Half French, half English, Marguerite Carter, young and beautiful, has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. Leaving her partisan lover she returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from Cambridge University.
As an English teacher in a girls’ grammar school. Miss Carter has a mission – to fight social injustice, to prevent war and to educate her girls.
Through deep friendships and love lost and found, from the peace marches of the fifties and the flowering of the Swinging Sixties, to the rise of Thatcher and the battle for gay rights, to the spectre of a new war, Sheila Hancock has created a powerful, panoramic portrait of Britain through the life of one very singular woman.
Author's Biography
Sheila Hancock is one of Britain’s most highly regarded and popular actors, and received an OBE for services to drama in 1974 and a CBE in 2011. Since the 1950s she has enjoyed a career across film, television, theatre and radio. She has directed and acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Her first book, Ramblings of an Actress, was published in 1987.
Following the death of her husband, John Thaw, Sheila Hancock wrote a memoir of their marriage, The Two of Us, which was a No. 1 bestseller and won the British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2004. Her memoir of her widowhood, Just Me was published in 2008. She lives in London and France.
Reviews
'There is more than a touch of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie about the book … Carter is an original and convincing character and Hancock would be perfect for the part in a film of the book' Daily Mail
'She has a vocation for putting into words the alienation that age and grief bring. The audience for her previous books will be delighted by this one' **** Daily Telegraph
'A vivid portrait of the fast-changing life in post-war Britain. Nostalgic and moving' Woman & Home
Price £12.99
Reader Comments
I was sorry when the story ended and could have gone on reading...
Brilliant!