As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During- Emma Smith
As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During- Emma Smith Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. Then, in…
Specifikacia As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During- Emma Smith
As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During- Emma Smith
Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma's father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown-from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously.
But what should Emma, aged only sixteen, do? Emma's sister Pam at once enlists with the WAAF and Jim, her politically minded brother, after initially declaring himself a pacifist, joins the RAF. Secretarial collage equips her for a job with MI5 but it's dull work and Emma yearns for fresh air.
She is rescued by a scheme taking on girls as crew for canal boats. Freedom The war over, Emma