Bombweed: Adapted from an unpublished novel written in 1947 by Margaret Smith Fernandez Morton Gillian
Bombweed: Adapted from an unpublished novel written in 1947 by Margaret Smith Fernandez Morton Gillian Rosebay willowherb grew rapidly on bombsites in WWII. Her family is shattered, like the…
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Bombweed: Adapted from an unpublished novel written in 1947 by Margaret Smith Fernandez Morton Gillian
Rosebay willowherb grew rapidly on bombsites in WWII. Her family is shattered, like the buildings in her town, by the Luftwaffe. Often called Bombweed, its image conjured up the terror of the blitz and its aftermath; a reminder of the lifelong consequences of wartime loss and the choice to cling to, discard, or lock away the memories of those who have disappeared from view in the fog of war.Vivienne, a naive teenager in 1938, has to grow up in a world at war.
Memories are destroyed, blotted out with drink and sex, or clung to obsessively. Vivienne and her sisters each seek ways to deal with devastating loss. Houses can be repaired when peace comes, but the heart is a trickier matter.
Vivienne knows that to recover, she must reach into the dark