Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation. Two people, two lives, a serial killer and the bombing of London during WW2 - Couverture souple

Turnham, Peter

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ISBN 10 : 1739994167 ISBN 13 : 9781739994167

Editeur : P&C Turnham, 2024

Synopsis

From the best-selling author of ‘None Stood Taller’, short-listed for the independently published book of the year 2022.

Despite the hardships of war, two people dare to believe that somewhere in the ruins of London, they will find love, but tragedy awaits them both.

Emma is a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Her tragedy is that St Thomas’s was bombed eight times during the Blitz. The destruction and loss of life were devastating, but incredibly, the hospital didn’t once close its doors. Emma’s contribution towards that achievement will reduce you to tears and inspire you in equal measure.

Roger is a police detective embroiled in the hunt for a serial killer. His tragedy is to live and work in Balham, South London. When a bomb penetrates the Balham Underground Station, where six hundred Londoners, including Roger, are sheltering, a disaster unfolds that changes his life forever. He loses everything except hope. Hope that the future might once again contain happiness.

This is a period of unimaginable inhumanity, a period when ordinary civilians found themselves on the frontline. The nation didn’t surrender; Emma continued to save lives, and Roger maintained law and order, but they did much more. Like so many, they refused to abandon the essential spirit that defines them as human. They believed that good would overcome evil, they believed in a future without war, and that love would find a way. Emma and Roger represent the triumph of the human spirit: they are two of the greatest generation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

An "unlikely author," I came to writing during enforced rest after snapping my Achilles tendon. In sheer desperation of boredom I said to my wife Carol, "I'm going to write a novel." Had I said I was going to climb Mount Everest (wearing my leg brace) it would have been equally implausible! Despite being a dyslexic with the resultant short attention span and glacial reading pace, I have found the challenge immensely rewarding and enjoyable, with five novels to my name.Initially I started with merely the words "Chapter One" but eventually I used a character based on a larger-than-life friend. The story developed spontaneously because I could visualise exactly what my character would say. The other characters then seemed to come and sit beside me, helping me to write their stories. The first title is "Autumn Daffodils - Charlie's Story," quickly followed by the continuation of the same story "Autumn Daffodils - Joanna's Story." Both are achieving modest success, though they are hard to market, not fitting into an easily recognised genre.I then chose a more focused genre, World War Two. Though I live in the Cotswolds, I was born and brought up in London. I used to listen to my parents' conversations about having lived through the Blitz and became very much aware of what they lived through. Thus "None Stood Taller" began, about Lily, a young woman who loses everything in the Blitz. Her incredible journey takes her to the very top of the British wartime establishment and Special Operations Executive (SOE), covering the period from 1941 to D-Day in 1944. Subsequently two more books in the series have been published: "None Stood Taller, The Final Year" covering Lily's life and loves from D-Day to VE-Day, and "None Stood Taller, the Price of Freedom" which is about Lily's good friend Dotty and the war years from her perspective as an SOE field agent. Just published, August 2024, is "Parallel Lives - a Story of the Greatest Generation", which is an inspiring tale about Emma, a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital, London and Roger, a police detective, transporting the reader to when the Hospital was bombed, also the Balham Tube Station disaster, and a killer who roamed the darkened streets of London under the cover of the Blackout.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: P&C Turnham
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1739994167
• ISBN 13: 9781739994167
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 552
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg