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2/18/2019

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I can't believe it's been months since I last blogged. My excuses are: first I was busy selling and promoting Stranger on the Point, and then I was getting absorbed in the new novel.
After a slow start I set myself writing targets in January and have been making great progress. It has been hard work though as I try to get the small details right. The novel is set in WW2 and follows the story of Helen, granddaughter of Alice, and niece to Lily. At times I just seem to be going round in circles, as I write one thing and then learn it is historically wrong so I have to start again. I had Helen standing on the platform at Lydd Station, when I discovered that passenger trains stopped running the year before. So, the poor woman ended up having to travel to Dungeness on the Brewer's Dray. Once at Dungeness, she walked past the Pilot, but the pub has changed location, and that had to be re-done! 
What else features in the novel? There are plane crashes, bombs and scenes of women in the NAAFI tea van, alongside the return of well-known characters and new ones too. All Lydd and Dungeness scenes so far, with a brief outing to New Romney.
The novel should be completed in a couple of months, but then there will be several more months of checks, with special attention to the historical details.
The photo shows a leaflet, which I borrowed as part of my research. It told me about the fund-raising for the repairs to the bombed church of All Saints

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