War Crimes for the Home

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 227, [5]. Black cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine; navy-blue endpapers. With integral ribbon marker. Jacket design by William Webb.

Hint of toning to textblock edges, else Fine.

Author's fourth novel. "You know what they say about GIs and English girls' knickers," ran the wartime joke, "One Yank and they're off." An exploration of the twilight zone between lucidity and stroke-affected memory, through the disjointed voice of Gloria, a munitions factory worker during the Blitz, living it up with a succession of American GI Joes, but now a reluctant resident of the Sea View nursing home.

Jensen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005, while her fifth novel The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, was the basis for the 2016 supernatural thriller of the same name. "A brilliant portrait of England chronicled with skewed humour and compassion by a most gifted and original writer." –Mail on Sunday