ROCKPORT - Joyce Lovely will be at the Rockport Public Library on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. to talk about growing up during World War II in Liverpool, England, amid air raids, bombs and gas masks, as well as the postwar years. She has written about these experiences in her book, Ice Cream, Gasmasks and God.

As a child, she tells of life during the war from her perspective, allowing the grown ups 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. She brings the reader into the life of a teenager in the fifties, 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.

Lovely will share some of the highlights of the book, as well as a few other stories of war time England not included in her book. Questions will be welcomed.