Liverpool 1936
Miranda & her mother, Arabella, live comfortably in a nice area. But when her mother tells her she
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an asylum by her husb&.
Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the
... Arthur Pettinger's memory isn't what it used to be.
He can't always remember the names of his grandchildren, where
Southampton 1940.
Abandoned when she was tiny, Maisie Reynolds was separated from her twin brother & forced to grow
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai, but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese hellships which was torpedoed.
Nearly everyone else on board died & Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan & then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away...
This is the extraordinary story of a young men, conscripted at nineteen & whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not just one, but three close encounters with death
- encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.
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An extraordinary & moving tale that you must read.
This paperback book has 320 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.5cm.