Anne de Courcy
A Girl’s Own Story
Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF
By Joan Rice
HarperCollins 265pp £16.99 order from our bookshop
‘All I got were rejection slips from editors, and how could I save up for a world trip on £2.10 shillings a week? Then in September 1939, war was declared. This was my opportunity, I seized it immediately. I joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.’ So begin the wartime diaries of Joan Rice (yes, the mother of Sir Tim, her eldest son, born towards the end of the war, in 1944).
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