Posted by kate crosby on September 29, 2001 at 20:34:07 from 209.145.70.97:
from The Peppered Moth,(published 2001):
"She had indeed had a hard war, on the domestic front. A single mother, alone,in a strange town. An educated woman, with a Cambridge degree, living lonely in a council house, teaching three days a week, turning the mangle two days a week, and reading Victorian novels and country-house detective stories and Arthur Ransome tales by night, night after night after night, in the long blackout."