Patricia Nicol
Praise for Sucking Eggs
Ambitious and systematic... she has made a serious study of government-imposed austerity in the Forties
David Sexton, Evening Standard
Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the Nationa ...
Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
Fascinating slice of social history... With painstaking research, a good helping of north-east commonsense and glorious illustrations taken from Ministry of Information posters from the 1930s and '40s, she demonstra ...
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Ambitious and systematic... she has made a serious study of government-imposed austerity in the Forties
David Sexton, Evening Standard
Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the Nationa ...
Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
Fascinating slice of social history... With painstaking research, a good helping of north-east commonsense and glorious illustrations taken from Ministry of Information posters from the 1930s and '40s, she demonstra ...
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Ambitious and systematic... she has made a serious study of government-imposed austerity in the Forties
David Sexton, Evening Standard
Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the Nationa ...
Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
Fascinating slice of social history... With painstaking research, a good helping of north-east commonsense and glorious illustrations taken from Ministry of Information posters from the 1930s and '40s, she demonstra ...
Aberdeen Press and Journal