There Was a Time
On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, he started to write this novel.
''What I wanted to do,'' he says, ''was to capture that feeling of those times and remind people of what the country went through.''
''Fabulous, often funny . . . the authentic, free...
On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, he started to write this novel.
''What I wanted to do,'' he says, ''was to capture that feeling of those times and remind people of what the country went through.''
''Fabulous, often funny . . . the authentic, free...
