Our Hidden Lives:
The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945 - 1948
by Simon Garfield
There was general agreement that this book provides a fascinating and informative insight into the lives of ordinary people at a hugely significant time in British history.
Some of us loved it.
Others were slightly less enthusiastic finding it overlong and increasingly offensive in the nature of the racist and anti-Semitic views expressed by just about all of the diarists.
Nonetheless they were a good selection of characters, largely likeable – with the possible exception of the odious B Charles – who provided us with a telling picture of attitudes of the time and a great deal of humour.
NS. September 2012
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