The counterpoint I found was in this great, glittering event towards the end of 1947 when Princess Elizabeth, the heir to the throne, married this very, very dashing and handsome young naval officer who was a distant cousin of hers, Philip Mountbatten. I also knew that would be a pretty grim book to read, four hundred pages of misery and woe. I wanted to write a book about that period. In many respects, actually, it got worse in terms of the daily hardships, the rationing, the shortages, the cueing up for things, the lack of housing. In every other respect, life continued on as it had done during the war. I wanted to know when everyone woke up the next morning, with a terrible hangover of course, and had the mess to clean up - just think of what a mess Trafalgar Square was the next day - and the dust cleared and people are able to think of what lay ahead, what were they imaging? I think they were probably imagining that life would get better, that the bombs wouldn't be falling on, they wouldn’t be learning of their loved ones in service being killed or wounded. Where I started, I was really interested in finding out what happened the day after VE Day because my previous book, Goodnight from London, ends on VE Day. Jennifer: The Gown is about what happened to the people of Britain, generally speaking, after the end of the second world war. Zibby: Jennifer, could you please tell listeners what The Gown is about?
Thank you so much for coming on “Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.” I'm thrilled to be interviewing you today. A former editor, she currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and children. A graduate of King’s University College at Western University, Jennifer got her doctorate in British economic and social history from Saint Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.
Her fifth novel, The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding, came out December 31st, 2018. Today, I'm interviewing Jennifer Robson who is the bestselling author of five novels set during and after the two world wars including Somewhere in France and Goodnight from London.
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