Miss May

by Jerrard Tickell

1958. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Genres: History

168 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1958

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book. It is an inspiring story about human courage in appalling conditions.How does this middle-aged woman cope! And could I? I found my copy in a nondescript secondhand bookstore. The cover is blue, with plain writing. It was dusty and stained when I found it and a child has scribbled in pink pencil on some of the pages. Given the context of what I read all this seems somehow appropriate as it refuses to mask or cover the amazing story that I found within its pages.Here is a story about joy in a joyless environment, about discovering self worth in conditions where one is made to feel less than worthless, where friendship is discovered amongst the most unlikely candidates .What is it that defines us as human? All of this I reflected on as I read this well crafted story. If only more books by this author were still available.I would highly recommend this book.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting read about an Englishwoman, Baroness Mary Alison Miske, and her experiences as a political prisoner in Russia after World War II. Detected and imprisoned in Hungary during the war, she was exchanged in 1943 for Eugene Wieser who had been interned in Britain. In 1947 she returned to Hungary to settle her husband's estate (Baron Miske) and disappeared into a Soviet prison camp...

This is an updated version of a book originally published in London by Hodder & Stoughton in 1958 .