Technical Virgins

by Elaine Crowley

In her best-selling first volume of autobiography, Cowslips and Chainies, Elaine Crowley remembered her childhood in 1930s Dublin with great warmth and poignance. In this delightful sequel she recalls her years as a young woman serving in the British army ATS after the Second World War. This is a memoir of leaving disease-ridden Dublin for a world she imagined to be a Tír na nOg of the young and healthy; of being a ‘Paddy’ in England; and of passionate friendships and romances. With her inimitable novelist’s eye for detail, Crowley weaves a fascinating tapestry of her years as a ‘technical virgin’, coloured by vivid descriptions of army rations (inedible), fashion (Maidenform bras, the miseries of the ATS uniform), social trends and sexual mores. Crowley re-creates a vanished world that will touch a chord in all who were once young.

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Barbra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another memoir from this author - have loved all of her novels.

Back Cover Blurb:
The sequel to her first volume of memoirs, 'Cowslips and Chainies', the author here chronicles her years as a young adolescent in post war England. The volume traces her travels and postings, as well as her friendships, relationships and romances.