num_pages: 236
description: Vibrant and engaging Olivia's diary reveals her frustrations fears pleasures and self-doubts. She records her mood swings and tries to understand them and speaks of her lover--a married man--and the intense relationship they have. As she and her friends and family are swept up by the momentous events of another European war she vividly reports on what she sees and hears in her daily life. Hers is a diary that brings together the personal and the public. It permits us to understand how one intelligent imaginative woman struggled to make sense of her life as the city in which she lived was drawn into the turmoil of a catastrophic war.
language: English
title: Love and War in London: The Mass Observation Wartime Diary of Olivia Cockett
publisher: The History Press