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she gets a job in a guest-house and falls in love with one of the men living there who gives her a venereal disease
it is an unintentionally funny and at times extraordinary bulletin from a vanished world
For me as a historian
Like DH Lawrence
in August 1939
Miss Ranskill Comes Home Gift Wrapping:None she gets a job inAFTERWORD BY WENDY POLLARD 336pp ISBN 9781903155363 This 1946 novel, by the author of the Worzel Gummidge books, is about a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard; she lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems to her to have gone mad: she cannot buy clothes without 'coupons', her friends are only interested in 'war work', and yet she is considered uncivilised