大象传媒

I am a novelist,and England in the 30s, 40s and 50's is my specific writing time zone, mainly because I am 57 years of age and live quietly on the Isle of Wight, so 21st century in-your-face stuff is completely outside my sphere! Most of my stuff is centered in Cornwall, and my second novel was set entirely during World War 2.
My fourth, for which I am now researching, will begin in 1946, and concern the relationship between an Austrian Jew living in London, who has lost almost his entire family as a result of Nazi Jewish policies in Europe, and an orphaned gentile child whose parents were killed in a London bombing raid.
I am fascinated by the war, having only just missed it, and was always avidly interested in my parents recollections.
Of particular interest to me was my mother's story about her time working in the National Physical Lab in Teddington.
She talked about how most of the girls working there with her at the time had been highly amused by a chap they referred to as a 'mad scientist'who spent half his life firing golf-balls up and down the huge water tanks in the lab.
The 'mad scientist' turned out to be no lesser man than Barnes Wallace, and the golf-balls were the beginnings of his bouncing bomb.
Fascinating how history in the making can be so unexceptional at the time!