Last Orders

Time, please for the English pub?

My book The Last Landlady, first published in 2018 by Unbound, is the story of my grandmother Violet, the first woman in England to obtain a publican’s licence in her own right, ie not as a wife. The book is also a sheaf of memories - mainly formed during childhood, thus with a child’s bedazzled intensity - of the pub that she created in the Home Counti…