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Eva Merrill
Eva Merrill was born in 1927, the eldest child of a working class family living in North London. She was twelve when World War 2 started in 1939 and she and her sister were evacuat...view moreEva Merrill was born in 1927, the eldest child of a working class family living in North London. She was twelve when World War 2 started in 1939 and she and her sister were evacuated to various parts of the country where they would be safer than in London. Eva also spent some of the war years in London, living through the constant air raids on the city.
After the War Eva worked in a bank for a while before she decided to go to college to train to be a missionary. Whilst at college she met Ray Merrill and fell in love with him, so wasn’t allowed to complete her course. In common with most women of her generation, Eva gave up work to bring up her family of three children, but once they were of school age she had lots of different jobs ranging from apple picking to librarian, juggling work around the family.
In the 1970s she trained as a Social Worker and worked in Hackney for a number of years until her retirement.
Eva has acute observational skills and a ready wit; both are reflected in her writing.view less
Books by Eva Merrill
Looking Back: Reflections of a London Child on the War Years 1939 - 1945