We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club

A Childhood on the Eve of War

By: Enid Elliott Linder

Narrated by: Anna Cordell

Enid Elliot Linder was the daughter of a butler and a lady’s maid in service in some of England’s grandest country houses.

Evoking the lost world of a childhood ‘below stairs’, Linder’s touching memoir describes how her life changed as Britain headed towards war.

After the family moved to a Marylebone tenement, her father sought work in London restaurants whilst battling personal demons. Meanwhile Linder’s aunt was nanny to a high-ranking member of the British Union of Fascists as they grew in influence.

In a photorealistic and immensely charming narrative reminiscent of Patrick Hamilton, Linder evokes the sights and smells of prewar London - and of lonely Cornwall, to where she was unhappily evacuated - in a way that will appeal to fans of Call the Midwife or Downton Abbey. A unique personal account of a tumultuous time.

©2020 Enid Elliott Linder (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

Depression and Pre-War Britian Seen by a Child

This book is a well-narrated first-person narrative of what it was like to be a child in a servant-class household in Britain during the depression and in the first days of World War II. It is filled with anecdotes and details that will be found nowhere else. Highly recommended!