Memoirs of a Gurkha Wife During Lockdown

von Lila Seling Mabo

270 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Lila Seling Mabo became a qualified teacher and later promoted to head teacher of Dharma Bhakta Primary school in Oyam, Panchathar Nepal.When she first arrived in the United Kingdom from Nepal with her British Army husband Shree Prasad Mabo. she had to start from scratch. Unable to use her formal Nepali qualifications she faced many obstacles and was often left home alone with her small children.She endured many challenges as an Army (Gurkha) wife but she was determined to carry on her studies and voluntary work whilst caring for her family.In a collection of diary entries beginning in March 2020, Seling Mabo details her life during lockdown as the pandemic ravaged the world. Her insightful comments her personal experiences cover during the two hundred and twenty-eight days of lockdown and two hundred and forty-four days of Covid-19. In this period Lila includes information on dramatic events such as the positive Covid diagnosis of the UK's prime minister, social distancing rules and the public adulation for NHS staff. Lila Seling Mabo's reminisces of past times, the rising of death toll, and the resilience of the British public.Memoirs of a Gurkha Wife during Lockdown shares diary entries from a military wife and mother as she endured the Covid-19 pandemic from inside her UK home.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9781665592932
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2022
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: AuthorHouse UK