Keep the home fires burning
By: by Anne Bennett
Edition: Library ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007359189
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: The year is 1940 and Bill and Marion Whittaker live happily with their five children in a terraced house on Albert Road, in Birmingham. But when Bill enlists to fight in the Second World War, the family are plunged into poverty. Marion is forced to pawn all her worldly possessions and decides to take in two lodgers.