Joan Snelling was born in London in 1922.
She joined the Women’s Land Army in Norfolk during the Second World War and continued to live in the same village for thirty years.

In 1975 Joan moved to France with her husband who had been badly injured and burned in a wartime bomber crash. He died in 1986.

Today she still lives in the same French hamlet in a rural area where she is well known as a water colour painter.

Books
A Land Girl’s War, 2004