Beneath Safer Skies: A Child Evacuee in Shropshire

By Anthea Toft

Fleeing the heavy bombing in Kent in 1940, Anthea Toft was eight years old when she arrived with her mother to live on a remote farm in deepest Shropshire. The contrast between her sheltered middle class life in the Home Counties, and that of the hard-working rural existence of the farming folk with whom she found herself, is vividly recorded in this remarkable account. A sensitive and nervous child, Anthea recalls with astonishing clarity the events that changed her young life at that time.

A fascinating snap-shot of the farming communities and a lost way of rural life in Shropshire during the second world war.

Anthea's account as a child-evacuee is interspersed with photographs and highlights from letters written between her parents at the time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906122652
• ISBN13: 9781906122652
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Merlin Unwin Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"