Polly's Small Town War
My mum was the inspiration for this particular book with her tales of wartime Barton upon Humber and the dances she attended during that time. She met her very own Chris (one of the main characters in the book), who was a corporal at the nearby Elsham RAF camp who turned out to be my dad!
Most of the book is fiction but I did use family names in different contexts to protect identities. The locations are fact but I renamed the houses. The house on Beck Hill is still there but the beck itself has been drained which is a shame as it made such a beautiful setting being between the two churches.
Polly and Laura Hardcastle are fictional sisters living in the house facing St Peter's Church. It was a small town during WWII and was fortunate not to suffer any really heavy bombing, which seemed to have been reserved for Hull across the water.
The story tells of Polly's and Laura's lives as they deal with the hardship and heartache of life in the 1930s and 1940s. Laura is married to Sean O'Connell who is a nasty piece of work and delivers his final deception in a particularly unexpected way.
Note: The above book cover is available only on Kindle. The paperback has the original template cover.
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Most of the book is fiction but I did use family names in different contexts to protect identities. The locations are fact but I renamed the houses. The house on Beck Hill is still there but the beck itself has been drained which is a shame as it made such a beautiful setting being between the two churches.
Polly and Laura Hardcastle are fictional sisters living in the house facing St Peter's Church. It was a small town during WWII and was fortunate not to suffer any really heavy bombing, which seemed to have been reserved for Hull across the water.
The story tells of Polly's and Laura's lives as they deal with the hardship and heartache of life in the 1930s and 1940s. Laura is married to Sean O'Connell who is a nasty piece of work and delivers his final deception in a particularly unexpected way.
Note: The above book cover is available only on Kindle. The paperback has the original template cover.
UK Link: http://amzn.to/AE7xID
US Link: http://amzn.to/Ns1j0x