Ethel Winter

Caustic Dispossessed Fantasist ~ Age: 25

A scornful Leylandian librarian, who enlists as a telephonist to stay close to her husband Len. Living in a rougher part of an industrial port town, Ethel spends her time obsessively escaping into (children's) fiction - and devouring her (primary school) library's works late into the night leaves her perpetually sleep-deprived and crabby.

Ethel and Len foster an intricate and ever-evolving fantasy of their one true ambition in life - to someday live out a blissful countryside existence together. If anything were to happen to her beloved in the war, Ethel's whole world would irrevocably shatter...