Amid the Dancing Shadows: A rural wartime childhood - Softcover

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Amid the Dancing Shadows is a fictional account of a rural childhood in South Oxfordshire, set in the period 1939 to 1947. The war years. The challenges of rural life, social customs and curiosities create a rich background as Maggie grows up. She discovers how to adapt to strict codes of behaviour set by adults at home and at the Iron Room, the meetinghouse of a group of non-conformist Christians. Their firm influence and rigid boundaries often conflict with what she experiences at school and elsewhere. Questioning any of these restrictions is a punishable offence. Maggie, like all children, learns to express herself amid adult expectations, the call of the countryside and her own thoughts and feelings.
Outwardly country life is tranquil. Even in wartime, village people go about their everyday lives, and farmers plod their way through the country year. But behind Maggie’s everyday world lurk dangers and uncertainties: her mother’s long absences due to ill-health; lonely hours spent in an empty house; ominous sounds of heavy aircraft overhead; ever present fears about what the hateful Maloneys might do to her given the chance; and what she would do if she failed to win the grammar school place she longs for.

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