Wake up. Foul mood. Detest myself
Ysenda Maxtone Graham: ‘Lost Girls’, 19 December 2019
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature, 1939-51
by D.J. Taylor.
Constable, 388 pp., £25, September 2019,978 1 4721 2686 3 Show More
by D.J. Taylor.
Constable, 388 pp., £25, September 2019,
“... the so-called ‘fishing fleet’ to search for a suitable husband. She and a young officer called Charles Langford-Hinde did fall in love, and Langford-Hinde stowed away with her on the ship back to Britain, but he was discovered, arrested and thrown off the ship at Aden. He would die soon afterwards in an ambush at the North-West Frontier.So, a nicely ... ”