Author commentary + Sources of inspiration + Story inspiration + Writing update

Daughters of Lace

Author commentary

It is a fact that people of my generation and older, whose parents were war babies, or children of people who lived during the war, told heartbreaking stories like that of Jim’s in this chapter.

My grandfather was a St John’s ambulance driver himself and I remember the family story of how he came home ‘changed’ and ‘couldn’t settle’ whi…