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Among You Taking Notes...
- Narrated by: Jacqueline King
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a place like this may be that it will keep alive certain ideas of freedom which might easily be destroyed in the course of this totalitarian war...
Born in Edinburgh, Naomi Mitchison spent most of the Second World War in the fishing village of Carradale on Kintyre, her home until her death aged 101. Her life was crowded with incident, and her attitudes to events predictably forceful, original and honest.
Throughout the war she kept a diary at the request of the research organisation Mass Observation, in which she recorded both the momentous events of the time, and also how one (albeit extraordinary) family and their friends lived, what they hoped for and what actually happened. Her diaries developed far beyond the confines of a social document.
Written with the passion of a poet combined with the intellectual curiosity of a radial thinker, they provide a unique and valuable document of the period.
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"As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then." (Guardian)
"She writes vividly and movingly." (Daily Telegraph)
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- Purplelotus
- 08-02-23
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I very much enjoyed this diary. I found Naomi Mitchison very interesting. Her opinions of the war are not the conventional ones and her candour is refreshing. She obviously had a privileged life, was well connected and had many advantages. Yet her daily frustrations with the farm, her family, her fears and deep losses were the same as for anyone. The stories of people who came to stay, Frenchmen fleeing occupied Europe and returning POWs were fascinating.
It was very well read and I felt as if a friend were chatting to me. At times I got a bit irritated with her and found her a bit idealistic but hindsight is a wonderful thing. However, I shall miss her and wish there was more.
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