Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit D

Reproduction of the original: Consequences by E.M Delafield

Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.

A look at how 'ordinary' people in London and Birmingham lived, worked and coped during World War II, through the diary of an "ordinary commonplace Londoner."