![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stranger in the House looked at how women coped when the men came home from the war, while When the Children Came Home examined the impact of evacuation on family life in the war’s aftermath. Since then I have been exploring the impact of the Second World War on people’s lives, with particular focus on women on the Home Front. Fearless on Everest was published in 2000 and was followed in 2005 by The Colonel of Tamarkan, a biography of my grandfather, Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey, the ‘real’ colonel who built the Bridge on the River Kwai. However I have always wanted to be a writer and when the opportunity arose to work on a biography of my great uncle, Sandy Irvine, I took it with relish. Born on the Wirral and brought up in Cheshire, I spent the first half of her career working in the art world. I am the author of eleven works of non-fiction, including the best-selling book Jambusters which inspired the ITV drama series Home Fires. ![]()
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