Iris Jones Simantel: 2 books
by Iris Jones Simantel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Discover the remarkable memoir by GI Bride and bestselling author Iris Jones Simantel.
Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine. And soon after...
Far from the East End
The moving story of an evacuee's survival and search for home
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**
From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.
Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris spent her early years playing in...