Andrew Chalkley was born in Hertfordshire in 1968. After completing a Geography degree, he trained to be a teacher, and taught for nearly 30 years in schools across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. This is his first novel.
I always wanted to ask my 94-year-old grandmother what she did during the war…On a warm spring day in 2012, two elderly sisters; Mabel and Di, sit side by side smiling, as they are about to toast the latter’s one-hundredth birthday. Nobody present could have guessed that over 70 years ago in the...