Author Joyce Lovely will read from her book, “Ice Cream, Gasmasks, and God ; A Memoir of World War II and Postwar Britain” at 2 p.m. April 7 at Springvale Public Library, 443 Main St.

The presentaiton reviews Lovely’s life during World War II in Liverpool, England, and the postwar years.

Over 70 years have passed since the ending of World War II. In her book, Lovely recounts growing up in Liverpool amid air raids, bombs and gas masks She tells of life as a child during the war from her perspective, allowing the grownups to worry about battles, rations and lack of necessities.

Postwar Britain continued to be difficult with rationing extending until 1953, the year Queen Elizabeth was crowned. Lovely brings the reader into the life of a teenager in the 1950s, where girls had strict mores to follow but still had fun – that included her two working years in London. The book concludes with her marriage to a minister and their first three years of living in the far-flung Shetland Islands. Here she shares how she rebelled against the island expectations of “yon minister’s wife” as well as the unusual accounts of village life, often with hilarious results.

Questions will be welcomed.