The night raid / Clare Harvey.

By:

Harvey, Clare G., author [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Simon & Schuster 2017.Description: 423 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781471161841
1471161846

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

823.92 23

LOC classification:

PR6108.A78735

Summary: World-renowned artist Dame Laura Knight is in her 60s when the War Office commissions her to paint portraits of 'bomb girls', women who worked in munitions factories in WWII. She's sent back to her hometown of Nottingham and at first she relishes the opportunity for a nostalgia trip, but when she starts work on a portrait of two particular women (Violet Smith, and her co-worker Zelah Pascoe), memories begin to resurface that she has spent half a lifetime trying to forget.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Fiction	HARV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00671120

World-renowned artist Dame Laura Knight is in her 60s when the War Office commissions her to paint portraits of 'bomb girls', women who worked in munitions factories in WWII. She's sent back to her hometown of Nottingham and at first she relishes the opportunity for a nostalgia trip, but when she starts work on a portrait of two particular women (Violet Smith, and her co-worker Zelah Pascoe), memories begin to resurface that she has spent half a lifetime trying to forget.

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