The Oaken Heart (1941) - Margery Allingham

Margery Allingham

Category: Autobiography & Biographies

Narrator: Georgina Sutton

Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, Military, Literature

The Oaken Heart By: Margery Allingham Narrated by: Georgina Sutton Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 30-11-2021 Language: English Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks, Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt DArcy (Auburn) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600. Commissioned by American publishing friends to recount what life was like, she began The Oaken Heart in the autumn of 1940, when the Battle of Britain gave way to the London Blitz. Bombs fell, even on the Essex countryside, and a German invasion was fully expected. She conceived her work as an honest letter to America. Places were given fictional names but otherwise she told it like it was, whether funny or painful., Unsentimental yet personal and rich in detail, this is an