Good Evening, Mrs Craven
The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes's name was associated with The New Yorker, for which she wrote over thirty short stories; of the twenty-one in Good Evening, Mrs Craven, written between 1939 and 1944, only two had ever been reprinted – these very English stories have, until now, been unavailable to English readers.
Customer Reviews
Brings home the «home front » expérience
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven takes the reader back into London during the war. In Mollie Panter-Downes collection of short stories, she presents each story from a different point of view, all reflecting the experiences of London citizens on the home front during World War II. Examples include a young man who envies his peers who are fighting in the trenches, an elderly lady who is wearying of her war refugee guests and their idiosyncatic habits, and a group of women who meet regularly to prepare supplies to be sent to the soldiers who are daily risking their lives. We also get a taste of the sacrifices the residents faced, giving up things that most of us take for granted. The author was the New Yorker’s London wartime correspondent, so by living there herself, she knows whereof she speaks.