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Entertaining Eric: A Wartime Love Story
In 1941, 20-year-old Maureen, a Wren, began writing to her boyfriend Eric Wells, stationed in the Middle East. Full of warmth and humour, this charming collection of Maureen’s letters describes her life working for the war effort back home.
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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April 27, 2025
Fun, quirky series of letters written during WWII by Maureen Bolster, a young Englishwoman, to her fiancé, an Australian serving as an RAF pilot.
During the 3 ½ years they are separated, she wrote once or twice a week. She served in three different positions during the war: as a billeting officer for a London firm; as a Wren courier delivering messages throughout the UK and as a Wren stoker in boats’ crews at bases in southern England during the build-up to D-Day.
There are moments to give you pause: she doesn’t capitalize the word “Negro,” refers dismissively to “a Jewess,” and is so hostile to Americans in the U.K. that she states she would never want to visit “Yankeeland.”
However, her colorful description of the many unusual people she meets and the sights and sounds of wartime England are unlike any I’ve read elsewhere and even her unvarnished comments are worth learning about.
A short, easy read and recommended.
During the 3 ½ years they are separated, she wrote once or twice a week. She served in three different positions during the war: as a billeting officer for a London firm; as a Wren courier delivering messages throughout the UK and as a Wren stoker in boats’ crews at bases in southern England during the build-up to D-Day.
There are moments to give you pause: she doesn’t capitalize the word “Negro,” refers dismissively to “a Jewess,” and is so hostile to Americans in the U.K. that she states she would never want to visit “Yankeeland.”
However, her colorful description of the many unusual people she meets and the sights and sounds of wartime England are unlike any I’ve read elsewhere and even her unvarnished comments are worth learning about.
A short, easy read and recommended.
April 14, 2015
A lovely collections of letters detailing life during the war....fascinating to see what she thought would be amusing and simply what caught her eye.
January 31, 2016
An entertaining collection of correspondence from days long gone by.
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