Blog
From the Author's Desk
Eileen Vernon writes about the ideas and history that shaped Anne James: war, class, family, and the quiet damage that outlasts them all.
When a family is displaced by war, the loss is obvious. The home, the routine, the proximity. What is...
Class in England is not a system that announces itself. It operates through accent and posture, through...
It is easy to judge from a distance. A widow with a young daughter, fresh from the loss of her husband,...
There is a version of the English country house that exists in period dramas and travel brochures: warm...
The air raids are the part of the Second World War that history remembers most vividly. The rubble, the...