Beneath Safer Skies

A Child Evacuee in Shropshire

Nonfiction, History, British, Military, World War II, Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Anthea Toft ISBN: 9781910723555
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books Limited Publication: April 30, 2017
Imprint: Merlin Unwin Books Language: English
Author: Anthea Toft
ISBN: 9781910723555
Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books Limited
Publication: April 30, 2017
Imprint: Merlin Unwin Books
Language: English

Fleeing the heavy bombing in Kent in 1940, Anthea Toft was eight years old when she arrived with her mother to live on a remote farm in deepest Shropshire. The contrast between her sheltered middle class life in the Home Counties, and that of the hard-working rural existence of the farming folk with whom she found herself, is vividly recorded in this remarkable account. A sensitive and nervous child, Anthea recalls with astonishing clarity the events that changed her young life at that time. A fascinating snap-shot of the farming communities and a lost way of rural life in Shropshire during the second world war. Anthea’s account as a child-evacuee is interspersed with photographs and highlights from letters written between her parents at the time.

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Fleeing the heavy bombing in Kent in 1940, Anthea Toft was eight years old when she arrived with her mother to live on a remote farm in deepest Shropshire. The contrast between her sheltered middle class life in the Home Counties, and that of the hard-working rural existence of the farming folk with whom she found herself, is vividly recorded in this remarkable account. A sensitive and nervous child, Anthea recalls with astonishing clarity the events that changed her young life at that time. A fascinating snap-shot of the farming communities and a lost way of rural life in Shropshire during the second world war. Anthea’s account as a child-evacuee is interspersed with photographs and highlights from letters written between her parents at the time.

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