Westwood

"Westwood captures the heart, right from its opening pages. as an account of what it was like to be an ordinary young woman in wartime London - no stockings, no chocolate, no men - it can hardly be bettered. How did it, I wonder, evade fresh new soft covers for so long?" -- Rachel Cooke Observer "A wartime masterpiece" Evening Standard "Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century" -- Lynne Truss "Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on" Mail on Sunday "You show up a group of characters, all of whom are discontented and unhappy. Yet the feeling that comes through very powerfully is that life is wonderful, in spite of individual bitterness and frustration." -- Fan Letter Letter to Stella Gibbons from Henry Parris