SuitabookLife on all fronts
Gill Thomas
- Reading
- Read it in sections around home and social life, paid work and campaigning; pause to connect each area to the changes the book describes.
- Themes
- Women’s wartime lives and opportunities: The book examines women’s domestic and social lives, paid work and changes brought by the war, including opportunities across social classes. It presents these areas as an alternative to accounts focused only on men’s involvement in the war.
- Worth knowing
- The subject is wartime Britain, and the book includes women who campaigned to end the war. You could check in together if your child finds war-related history troubling.