Few Eggs and No Oranges

Few Eggs and No Oranges, the diary of Vere Hodgson, recounts British life on the home front during the Second World War.

It was first published in 1976 by Dennis Dobson[1][2][3] and again in 1999 by Persephone Books.

[4][5] Described by the author as "a diary showing how unimportant people in London and Birmingham lived through the war years", the published diaries begin on 25 June 1940, the morning after the first air raid on London.

She read History at Birmingham University and went on to be a teacher.

[6] In the early 1930s she helped to run a local charity in Notting Hill Gate.