Cinderella Service - The Land Girls

Come & learn about the Land Girls!
The 4,290 women who registered as land girls during WWII have been called 'The Cinderellas' of women's paid war service – they helped maintain food production in NZ under difficult wartime conditions yet were largely overlooked.
They didn't attest, thus weren't issued Defence service numbers, weren't permitted to participate in victory or Anzac Day parades, and were denied RSA membership.

Lynda Taylor researched the land girls while completing her Master of Creative Writing, accessing handwritten let-ters and diaries penned by men and women on active service, and interviewing people of the land in Hawkes Bay. Her novel is published by Mary Egan Publishing.

Meet the author Lynda Taylor
Sunday 4 May, 3pm
Community Courthouse
60 Holloway Street
Taratahi Carterton, Wairarapa
Book launch & signing & Q+A
Free entry - koha is welcomed

Dianne Bardsley, author of The Land Girls: In a Man's World, 1939-1946, will join the afternoon session.
Wai Word thanks Almo's Books (Carterton) and The Land Girl Cafe (Pirinoa) for their support.