I live in Guernsey, a British island that was occupied by the Nazis during World War 2. This is the story of the social legacy of that war on my very ordinary family.
My mum evacuated to England in June 1940, just before the Germans invaded. My dad didn’t get off the island in time. For 5 years they lived apart with no communication, other than the occasional Red Cross message, passing between them. Twenty- five heavily censored words a few times a year ... if they were lucky.
When war ended, Mum returned to Dad and eleven years later I was born.
In 2009, I received an email from a girl called Charley claiming to be my sister’s granddaughter. Yet I was an only child, so how could this be? But Charley had birth records for 2 babies, born in England during the war; both with the same unusual Guernsey surnames as my parents …
…. so who were these 2 wartime babies? What part had one of them already played in my life? Would it be possible to trace the other? And what would the future hold for us all?
After encouragement from family and friends, and many attempts at writing and rewriting it, I was delighted to launch Clouds in my Guernsey Sky, at the Guernsey Literary Festival in May 2023.
The book is available to order from Blue Ormer publishers and Amazon. It has also just been released on Kindle and Kindle unlimited.
My mum evacuated to England in June 1940, just before the Germans invaded. My dad didn’t get off the island in time. For 5 years they lived apart with no communication, other than the occasional Red Cross message, passing between them. Twenty- five heavily censored words a few times a year ... if they were lucky.
When war ended, Mum returned to Dad and eleven years later I was born.
In 2009, I received an email from a girl called Charley claiming to be my sister’s granddaughter. Yet I was an only child, so how could this be? But Charley had birth records for 2 babies, born in England during the war; both with the same unusual Guernsey surnames as my parents …
…. so who were these 2 wartime babies? What part had one of them already played in my life? Would it be possible to trace the other? And what would the future hold for us all?
After encouragement from family and friends, and many attempts at writing and rewriting it, I was delighted to launch Clouds in my Guernsey Sky, at the Guernsey Literary Festival in May 2023.
The book is available to order from Blue Ormer publishers and Amazon. It has also just been released on Kindle and Kindle unlimited.
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