Brenda began training at the Norland Institute in 1939, at the age of 18, shortly before war was declared. It was a time of great upheaval and uncertainty, particularly for children.
Even as a nervous young intern, Brenda was determined to give the children in her care a wonderful childhood, regardless of the horrors unfolding on the continent and when the blitz began, on their doorstep.
Brenda worked with poor evacuees in the East End of London, as well as in smart home nurseries in Kensington. She frequently put her life in danger, rushing to air raid shelters with her charges clutched to her chest.
This is the story of a time when nothing was taken for granted and life itself was in peril almost daily. But the war was also a time when people came together like never before or since, and it forced Brenda to make sacrifices she never imagined she would have to make…
Warm, funny and incredibly moving, Brenda's memoir brings to life the colorful world of wartime England.
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