After the bombing
By: Clare Morrall
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Magna
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780750540162
Subjects: Social aspects; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: 1942. Fifteen-year-old Alma Braithwaite and her fellow boarders at Goldwyn's school huddle in an air-raid shelter as bombs rain down on Exeter. Twenty-one years on, Alma teaches music at her old school. She's moderately content, until the death of the long-serving headmistress brings a new broom in the form of steely modernizing Miss Yates. A new student starts too - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942, when he played a pivotal role in her life. Suddenly, Alma is taken back to the summer that followed the raids, a summer of numbing loss yet also of youthful exuberance, friendship and dancing.
Notes: Adult.