Thursday, 25 August 2016

Evacuate your children

I intend to write ten books, at the moment I have just started number nine. All are different except the Evergreen Series and this one will be different again. It concerns a service family in the Second World War and the predicaments faced because of the war. During the war itself I was too young to know what was going on but within twenty years of it I was married to a serviceman and living in Germany. We loved it and found that the ordinary German people friendly, welcoming not as we were led to believe during the hostilities.

 In fact we made many friends by the simple expedient of walking into a shop and asking in our English German what an item was called. If they replied in English and lots of them spoke it we would say “How about coming round to our house and teach us German?” This way we found out a lot about how they suffered from their own side and what it was like to live under Hitler’s regime.  Of course it helps enormously in writing this book as I am able to give life to both sides of the war. I have only just started and have much research to do to get it right but I will keep you posted as it develops.

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