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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete collection of the diaries of Nella Last\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value...'\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama \u003ci\u003eHousewife 49\u003c/i\u003e starring Victoria Wood. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Diaries of Nella Last,\u003c/i\u003e brings together into a single volume the best of Nella's prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation's transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella's touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s. Outwardly Nella's life was commonplace; but behind this mask were a penetrating mind and a lively pen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs David Kynaston said on Radio 4, Nella Last '\u003cb\u003ewill come to be seen as one of the major twentieth century English diarists\u003c/b\u003e.'\u003c/p\u003e |
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