There Was a Time by Frank White - ISBN: 9781473650435
Paperback
1940: a village, a war, and lives intertwined by fate.

There Was a Time

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    30 January 2018

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Summary

A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer’s morning in 1940.

Following Dunkirk, the fate of the whole war will soon rest with the RAF and their desperate effort to win the Battle of Britain. If they fail, Hitler’s next step will be invasion.

And as the scene comes to life before us over the next six months, this shadow of war will not disappear.

From the pub to the church, struggling single mother to the lady of the manor, the paper boy to a traumatised bomb disposal…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473650435
ISBN-10:1473650437
Author:Frank White
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:30 January 2018
Weight:240g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

These fabulous, often funny stories have the authentic, freewheeling atmosphere of a time when all bets were off. * Daily Mail *
A wonderful read, packed with incident, colour and detail. * Telegraph *
The book captures the anxieties, heightened emotion and community spirit that marked this epoch-defining chapter in the nation’s long and colourful history. * Yorkshire Post *
There Was a Time vividly evokes life in a Lincolnshire village in 1940. Elegantly written and with beautifully-drawn characters, this absorbing story, amusing and poignant by turns, tells of the impact of the last War on a small, close-knit community. – Gervase Phinn
He writes beautifully - poignantly and with humour. * Telegraph & Argus *
White depicts unique, worried, caring individuals who it is not difficult to warm to and who are memorable. * Lincolnshire Life *
A tender evocation of a unique period in history * Sunday Mirror *

About The Author

Frank White

Frank White, born in Manchester in 1927, lives with his wife June in Lincolnshire, midway between Cleethorpes and Louth. A veteran of the wartime British Pacific Fleet, he has contributed essays and short fiction to numerous magazines and is the author of two novels and a short book on the First World War. Other work includes a dozen plays for stage and radio, and material for BBC television. In 2013, realising that the world was no longer full of people who could write at first-hand about the Second World War, he spent the summer working on There Was a Time.

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