Impressions of a Wartime Childhood

What did you do in WWII? How did you survive rationing? How did you sleep with bombs falling every night?Janet Gallon wrote her original memoir in the 1970s, as a young mother, to answer these questions solely for her two primary-school-aged daughters. She finds her ninety-year-old self being asked the same questions. Her childhood memories have become this century's social history. Now Janet has at last had her manuscript published - not only for today's inquisitive generation but also to stimulate further associated stories from her peers. Impressions of a Wartime Childhood is written to suit all ages. It portrays family life on the home front in Glasgow's Southside from the innocent viewpoint of the shy child Janet was then, growing up and adapting to the enforced changes brought about by war. It answers those initial wide-eyed questions and reveals ordinary life in what now seems like a different world - pre-supermarkets, pre-internet, pre-NHS, pre-politically-correct entertainment - through the observant gaze of a child of wartime.Proceeds from the sale of this book go to the care home, in the Highlands of Scotland, where Janet now lives.