Book description
'You know what they say about GIs and English girls' knickers,' ran the
wartime joke, 'One Yank and they're off.' When Gloria met Ron, he was an
American pilot who thought nothing of getting hit by shrapnel in the
cockpit. She was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the
Blitz, but still found time to grab what she wanted. Ciggies. Sex.
American soldiers. But war has an effect on people. Gloria did all sorts
of things she wouldn't normally do - evil things, some of them - because
she might be dead tomorrow. Or someone might. Now, fifty years on, it's
payback time. In her old folks' home, Gloria is forced to remember the
real truth about her and Ron, and confront the secret at the heart of
her dramatic home front story. In a gripping, vibrant evocation of
wartime Britain, Liz Jensen explores the dark impulses of women whose
war crimes are committed on the home front, in the name of sex,
survival, greed, and love . Liz Jensen is the acclaimed author of THE
PAPER EATER, EGG DANCING and ARK BABY which was shortlisted for the
GUARDIAN Fiction Prize. She lives in London.
