A Time of War told the story of a group of Wrens on a West Country airfield, but now the war is over, the girls are dispersed, and must learn to endure the rigours of the early post-war years, as well as the boredoms and perplexities of civilian life.
While Kerren takes a job as a librarian and tries to forget her husband, who was killed in the war, her friend, Robin, has married a kind, conventional lawyer and lives in Cheltenham. But the lives of these two are still, though more remotely, linked; their reunions with other men and women from the old Station, and Kerren's efforts to adapt herself to a life far less sheltered than her wartime one, provide both comedy and some near-tragedy.
Mary Hocking drew on her own experiences as an ex-Wren to trace the changes of emotional temperature, the disillusionment and the challenges, the need to realize new ways of life and the necessity to re-create themselves, experienced by her characters in this wonderful novel.
- ISBN10 1509819479
- ISBN13 9781509819478
- Publish Date 25 February 2016 (first published 24 September 1970)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 15 March 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Two Hoots
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 304
- Language English