She quit high school so she could work more hours. She was on an assembly line making air planes, and she loved the work. She got a job making goods for the war, because that made her feel like she was being patriotic, since she couldn't do anything bigger. Beryl kept a diary during this time of everything that was going on. It was during World War II and all of the boys were being shipped away and getting new lives, and she and the other women were left all alone. This was something she hated doing more than anything. It had gotten to the point where Beryl was headed to the train station to watch another boy leave more that once a week. And in her unforgettable portrait of the home front, Hunter has brought to life the daily trials and tribulations of a generation of women who had to stand by while their men went to war. In Natalie, Hunter has created a spunky, outspoken and utterly charming character, which readers young and old will revel in. At times funny and at other times deeply moving, Bernice Thurman Hunter_s last novel is drawn from her own memories of being a teenager in Toronto during World War II. And as news of other boys reaches home - some of it good but so much of it bad - Natalie begins to wonder what kind of world will be there for them all when the war finally ends. But it is during this time, when she is taking the most pride in her war work, that Natalie and her family get the news they_ve been dreading: her cousin, a gunner in the Dambusters Squadron, is listed as missing, presumed dead. Buying War Saving Stamps with her meager earnings is not enough for Natalie, however, and soon she finds work at De Havilland Aircraft, making bombers.
Now she quits school and takes a job at a department store. Her first move was to change her name from Beryl, which didn_t sound sophisticated at all. There are still dances at the Armories to meet handsome boys in uniform, but is that all a girl can do for the war effort? Natalie has a plan. And like her other girlfriends, Natalie is getting tired of waiting for the war to be over. Too often she takes the trip to Union Station to wave goodbye to another friend, wondering if he_ll ever come home again. But it_s 1944, and almost all the boys she knows have signed up and are being shipped overseas to fight the war in Europe.
Like any teenager, Natalie wants to have fun.
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