![]() ETA: having found the second volume of this trilogy, I discover Molly was 12 at the end of this first book. The text is a bit scrappy in parts, and there are no references to outside events to help place it in time, but that's normal when telling a child's story I don't know too many children (especially in that time) who think much about political/social events unless for some reason they affect them directly. It's just, "Yes we were poor, dirt-poor in fact, and we knew it, but we didn't let it own us." ![]() There's no "Young people today don't know how good they have it!" or "Poor me, my ambition saved me". She just talks to the reader, telling her story without self-pity or sentimentality. Picked it up on a sleepless night and devoured it entire in a few hours. I read Molly Weir's story of living and working through WW2 and getting her start on the BBC Radio, in a book called What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II, so I was interested in her biography. ![]()
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