The Girl from West Littleton A Wartime Birth, Village Childhood, and the Seasons of a Life

Cynthia Anne Smith was born in early 1941 in a cottage hospital in Chipping Sodbury on the day the nearby Parnells ammunition factory was bombed, killing over 50 people. Cynthia, known as Anne grew up during and in the shadow of World War 2. Her life story is a chronicle of changing times over 8 decades in this rural English county with its strong royal associations stretching back over 1000 years. This well written memoir is brim full of annecdotes and events from yesteryear