num_pages: 312
description: The author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a personal memoir of her familys resilience in the face of war and privation. Jacqueline Winspear's memoir tackles family issues like her paternal grandfather's shellshock her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII her parents years living with Romani Gypsies; and Jacquelines own childhood working on farms in rural Kent capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception.
language: English
title: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir
publisher: Soho Press