Sally Bone - Sheila Fields

A small girl in a crowd of evacuees decides that destination marked out for her does not appeal – so she makes the first of many sudden decisions which change her life at every turn.  
We follow Sally as she grows, through work, marriage and widowhood. This draws heavily upon the author’s own life and experiences, and it’s difficult to tell where fact and fiction meet. Sally’s life is eventful - with distant parents, a second life in the country as an evacuee, working first as a nurse and then becoming a businesswoman. There’s also a fair dash of romance in the Netherlands. 

Why you’ll like it 
It’s a believable picture of farm life seen through the eyes of a five-year old, the trials of life as a student nurse and a fascinating view of life in 1960s Amsterdam. 

Why you won’t like it
 The style is conversational; Sally is relating her memories to the reader, interspersing anecdotes and comments which can disturb the thread, and sometimes it’s difficult to follow. 


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Format:	Paperback	e-pub Kindle
Publisher	Blenheim Press Ltd	Blenheim Press Ltd
Year:	2009	2009
Price:	£9.95	£4.80
Pages:	394	394
ISBN-10:	1906302162
ISBN-13:	978-1906302160
ASIN:		B005GAAVPI
Reviewed:		7th June 2012
Prices correct at date of posting 2015-02-26