Unashamed plug for a wonderful book
Sometimes there is a book you admire so much you want to recommend it to everyone. One of these is Renate Greenshields’ A Bit of Time.
It’s rather unfair to use Triarchy’s website to praise a book not published by them. However A Bit of Time is a memoir, not about organizations or getting things done, so Triarchy wouldn’t have published it, even though it’s such a good book.
In a small town in North West Germany a happy childhood is cut short by World War II. Ten-year-old Renate has to join the Hitler Youth. In contrast, her father, a Lutheran pastor, harbours Jews in the rectory. The family is under constant surveillance from the Gestapo.
At the end of the war, Renate and the local British town commandant fall in love. In A Bit of Time Renate writes about her arrival in England in 1946, just eighteen years old, of coping with a foreign country and language, her marriage to a farmer-artist in Devon, her homesickness and bringing up her children.
The novelist Lynne Reid Banks writes: “If proof is needed – and in these noisy, in-your-face days, it is – that a book can give infinite pleasure with a low-key but fascinating story, well told, ‘Lucky Girl Goodbye’ and ‘A Bit of Time’ give it”.
To order a copy of the combined volume of these two books, send £ 7.99 to Renate Greenshields, Westhay Farm, Hawkchurch, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5XH.
It’s rather unfair to use Triarchy’s website to praise a book not published by them. However A Bit of Time is a memoir, not about organizations or getting things done, so Triarchy wouldn’t have published it, even though it’s such a good book.
In a small town in North West Germany a happy childhood is cut short by World War II. Ten-year-old Renate has to join the Hitler Youth. In contrast, her father, a Lutheran pastor, harbours Jews in the rectory. The family is under constant surveillance from the Gestapo.
At the end of the war, Renate and the local British town commandant fall in love. In A Bit of Time Renate writes about her arrival in England in 1946, just eighteen years old, of coping with a foreign country and language, her marriage to a farmer-artist in Devon, her homesickness and bringing up her children.
The novelist Lynne Reid Banks writes: “If proof is needed – and in these noisy, in-your-face days, it is – that a book can give infinite pleasure with a low-key but fascinating story, well told, ‘Lucky Girl Goodbye’ and ‘A Bit of Time’ give it”.
To order a copy of the combined volume of these two books, send £ 7.99 to Renate Greenshields, Westhay Farm, Hawkchurch, Axminster, Devon, EX13 5XH.
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