Eileen Elias Livres

As the world was entering the 1920's, with the promise of peace on earth and a world fit for heroes, Eileen Elias was entering her teens, her loyalties divided between the serge bloomers of school and the brave new world of short skirts, silk stockings and the Charleston. We follow the uncertain progress of her growing-up in a decade which saw the death of Lenin, the last days of the British Empire and a General Strike which brought Britain close to revolution.

A captivating account of a childhood in an age that has gone for good. Eileen Elias re-creates family life between the years 1910 and 1920, a life that today seems like a different world It is the story of a home bound by conventions of its time, when father knew best and on Sundays little girls wore white, a time when people believed that there would be peace forever. Of course, the Great War changed everything, especially the private world of a child.