Royal Air Force

The central events of the novel take place in postwar London over a few weeks during 1948, but those events are shaped by the separate experiences of the central characters before that time. The voices...

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

H. D. first met, after an eighteen-month correspondence, with Hugh, Lord Dowding , who had headed the RAF 's Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and was now an active spiritualist and theosophist.

H. D. held seances during which believed that she had been given messages by dead RAF airmen warning of an imminent Third World War.

AK 's son , a member of the RAF since the beginning of the war, was reported missing in action.

Margaret Wemyss , a recent graduate, married Jack Laurence , a fellow-student whose subject was engineering. He was also a war veteran, having been a mechanic with the RAF .

They had met as fellow members of High Wycombe Theatre Club; John's father was then Mayor of High Wycombe. Elizabeth was strongly attracted to John, and was wildly excited when she found herself pregnant...

AL 's father, Winston Levy , was one of those pioneers from the Caribbean (Jamaica) who came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. He kept a souvenir postcard he bought on the ship...

From the ages of nine to fifteen DA was chastely in love with a boy of her own age, kind, gentle, brave, honest and reliable: the most rational love of my life. After that...

He had been diverted from physical training instruction in the RAF in 1951, following a horrific plane crash in Scotland, into the field of mountain rescue. From early 1952 he headed the RAF mountain rescue...

AR and her husband had two daughters and two sons, and in due course six or more grandchildren and the same number of great-grandchildren. Their daughter Jane was born on the snowy night of...

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

Her father, Victor Valentine Gee , was dominant in the household. He was a socialist, an Old Labour man, yet at home he was an unreconstructed conservative authoritarian. He had been born into...

RF married the man with whom she had been living for years, Alan Sillitoe (former RAF radio operator, now a suddenly successful novelist), at Marylebone Town Hall in London.

Alison's father, Andrew Fell, was an engine mechanic in peace-time and an airman in the RAF during the Second World War, when Alison was born. He bombed Hamburg and Dresden and D Day France, and...