Janet Todd   Don't You Know There's a War On!
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-05-17

Join Professor Janet Todd as she reads from her new novel, Don’t You Know There’s A War On !(Fentum Press).

Joan is a widow, an outsider in post-Second-World War England, bereft of its empire and global status. She lives with her only daughter, Maud, angrily conforming to a culture she feels has left her behind. When Maud is threatened, Joan begins a diary to make sense of her alienated past, before and during the War. Giving rein to a loathing for the society that has thwarted her aspirations, she is merciless, her writing often sublimely funny; but Joan has a secret, never confided, which binds Maud to her. As Joan chronicles her life, her observations reveal psychological dramas, which, once uncovered, lead to a shocking conclusion.

Buy the Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-You-Know-Theres-War/dp/1909572071

Janet’s talk will be followed by a Zoom Q&A.

Janet Todd
Janet Todd is an internationally renowned novelist and academic, best known for her non-fiction feminist works on women writers including Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and Mary Wollenstonecraft. In recent years, she has turned her hand to writing novels, publishing Lady Susan Plays the Game, a Jane Austen spin-off, in 2013 and A Man of Genius in 2016 and her novel Don’t You Know There’s a War On!

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