Sixties’s Comments (group member since Apr 26, 2011)

Sixties’s comments from the Unknown Books? - Let's Read Them Club! group.

Irene wrote: "Not really, no. I've spent many years researching our family history, so I've absorbed all sorts of events and personalities from that, and the story must have contained some things I've discovered..."

I think that research showed in Flowers for Alys as well - it was almost as if you had lived in those times & those places. I gather you have a lot of admiration for the way of life back then, as tough as it was ?

Fredericka wrote: "Thanks but I haven't read the book and is not familiar with it so I wouldn't know what to ask @"

Ice wrote: "Thank you for the extensive reply, and for its 'readability' to someone for whom language, even their own is a challenge - more persperation than inspiration and my spelling is atrocious.

What w..."

Was there any particular person who inspired the story behind A Day To Go Gently?
It was written with such compassion & knowledge of the subject, I felt there had to have been a real person that it was based upon?