Caught Between Two Wars: A Memoir of Growing up in Wartime London

Set amongst a backdrop of World War 2, this is a story about growing up during a time of world upheaval. Alongside, a story of domestic conflict threatens the stability of family life. There is also a mysterious illness which cannot be cured.

The story begins almost ninety years ago, giving an account of a world that will soon be gone. Germany is about to invade Europe and the UK will be next on the list. Life rapidly becomes a time of rationing, blackouts, bombing and fatherless families.

At home a dark secret makes itself known which will cast a long shadow over the writer’s childhood. Peace is declared in 1945, but the domestic warfare smoulders on until it bursts into flame, ending in a death.

Now aged 88, the writer, a Jungian Analyst, revisits her childhood and tries to make sense of it all. Finally making her peace with the past she finds she has been “surprised by joy”.