5/28/2023 0 Comments The irregulars by jennet conant![]() ![]() ![]() Segrave combines family memoir with extensive material about the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park in her book, The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life.Įlisa Segrave is the author of The Diary of a Breast, about her battle with cancer, and the novel Ten Men. ![]() But the young woman she discovered in the diaries was vivacious, charismatic - and, had worked in the secret code-breaking section of the British intelligence service at Bletchley Park during WWII. That’s what happened to writer Elisa Segrave, who found the diaries her mother wrote as a young woman in pre-war and wartime Europe.Īt the time, Segrave was caring for her elderly mother, who was stricken with Alzheimer’s after decades of depression and alcoholism. Sometimes it’s mere chance that opens a door to a fuller comprehension of who the parent is - or was - as a separate human being. How much do children really know their parents? So often their understanding is clouded, especially when the relationship to the parent is a difficult one. We hear two Stories of British intelligence during World WWar II: Elisa Segrave talks about her memoir/history, The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life, and we replay our 2008 interview with Jennet Conant about The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Jennet Conant Elisa Segrave ![]()
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