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Reviewed by Karen Howlett at Cornflower Books
When Bloomsbury got in touch to tell me of their plans for a series of reprints and to ask for suggestions of much-loved titles to go on the list, among the books I mentioned to them was Joyce Dennys' Henrietta's War. Originally a series of articles for The Sketch magazine, the wartime letters from Henrietta, the wife of a doctor in a Devon coastal town, to her 'Childhood's Friend', Robert, who is serving abroad with the Forces, are about "the trivial doings of protected people in what is called a safe area". But for all their self-deprecating humour and their 'making the best of it' light-heartedness, they are also a perceptive study of people's attitudes to the war, of the way they thought and how that affected daily life.
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