A Fortunate Grandchild
Miss Read Memoirs seriesbook 1 of 2
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Miss Read recalls the two grandmothers who shaped her early years, along with the wider families who surrounded them. Her memories are sharp and affectionate, bringing ordinary domestic life back into view. The period is still shaped by the recent Great War, whose effects reach households, routines and expectations even far from the front.
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Rather than a grand narrative, the book offers small, lived details of how people cooked, worked, visited and got by. It is a gentle portrait of a vanished way of life, seen through the eyes of a child growing up in its shadow.
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