Fallout: The Women of Greenham Common | Hereford Military History Festival

Eleanor Anstruther takes us back to Greenham Common in her new book Fallout. It's the winter of 1982 and fifteen year old Bridget is bored at school and embarrassed of her parents. Her father is building a fallout shelter in the garden. Her mother is holding the family together with cigarettes and string and no one is saying anything that feels true. So when she hears of a protest camp at RAF Greenham Common she goes. What she finds isn’t just a camp but a rewriting of every story she’s ever been told; women who don't ask permission, women who do what they like and the longer she stays, the harder it is to go home. But as Bridget is pulled deeper into this volatile, exhilarating world, she begins to see cracks in everything she thought she understood about family, power, and herself.