{"product_id":"maidens-trip","title":"Maidens Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Wonderfully written, humorous and humane, and beautifully evocative of the time'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Independent Summer Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Smith''s writing exudes wisdom and humour, and her descriptions ... are vividly drawn'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Hope and energy radiate from every sentence of this lovely volume as it emerges into the light after its long sojourn in the cemetery of forgotten books'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Daily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic and unforgettable tale of three girls who abandon their middle-class comforts for an adventure of a lifetime during the Second World War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine ticking over and steer through tunnels. They live off kedgeree and fried bread and jam, adopt a kitten, lose their bicycles, laugh and quarrel and get progressively dirtier and tougher as the weeks go by. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaidens'' Trip\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic memoir of the growth to maturity of three young women in the exceptional circumstances of Britain at war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318189597054,"sku":"NW9781408801253","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781408801253.jpg?v=1778723577","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/maidens-trip","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}