Sucking Eggs

Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... Much of the book's fun is in the deft way Nicol weaves together examples of can-do thrifty propaganda. She has trawled the Imperial War Museum and the National Archives and come up with some gems

Bee Wilson, Sunday Times

Fascinating slice of social history... With painstaking research, a good helping of north-east commonsense and glorious illustrations taken from Ministry of Information posters from the 1930s and '40s, she demonstrates how this generation could learn a lot from the self-sacrifice and austerity of the war years

Aberdeen Press and Journal

A fascinating book

Big Issue

A comparative history of rationing, 'making do' and the environmentally-friendly lessons we can learn from those post-war years

Choice Magazine

In our age of unprecedented consumption and limited resources, our grannies can show us the way to a total lifestyle change

Irish Examiner

Illustrated throughout with jaunty, witty government posters... Nicol wants our latter-day green movement to look back and learn a thing or two from forgotten habits of the past'

Mary Blanche Ridge, The Tablet

Good old granny! Here's what she could teach today's throw-away society with its gas-guzzlers, bulging wardrobes and waistlines... When it comes to going green, our wartime grannies showed us the way

Unite

Get a copy...and find out what your war-time granny can teach you about going green

Irish Times

Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... It is apparent that Nicol, whose words exude practical optimism, would have made a good Land Girl.

The Sunday Times