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Good Evening, Mrs. Craven & Other Stories
New Yorker writer Molly Panter-Downes stories of domestic life in war-ravaged England speak to the tragedy of war far from the enemy frontlines.
Great stories are often not just about the writing, the plot or the characters, but what they tell us of the human condition. That is what really pulls me into the pages and makes me think about what I have read long after I finished the book. Stories about ordinary women in extraordinary situations are my personal favorite which is why I am in love with Persephone Publications Good Evening, Mrs. Craven.
About The Collection
The author, Mollie Panter-Downes, was a columnist for The New Yorker during the Second World War. Over the years, she contributed war reports in the form of Letters from London and several short stories. Good Evening, Mrs. Craven is the compilation of these stories. The focus on these stories is not on the battlefields, the soldiers or the war machine itself, but the effect of war on the home front in England. These are the stories of women who may not be sitting in trenches in the line of fire but are still acutely aware of the danger the war brings — both emotional and physical.
The collection is a mix of the comical and the tragic, of the optimistic and the hopeless. These short, sharp stories give us a window into…
