Publisher's Synopsis
The film MRS MINIVER, starring Greer Garson, was a wartime classic with a difference. Rather than the battlefield, it shows English village life turned upside down and the bride, not the handsome pilot, is killed. In real life, the author of the book, Jan Struther, little resembled her heroine. She drifted out of love with her conventional husband and fell for an erudite Jewish refugee. The unfolding of her life - a well-brought-up little girl, a society wife, a passionate woman in love and a political campaigner - is a microcosm of what the war could do to people. With great care, Ysenda Maxtone Graham tells the immensely touching story of the grandmother she never knew.
