![]() ![]() As the planes returned there was always the worry that they would jettison their bombs over their village. ![]() Elizabeth and her Mother were living at that time in Marldon, a small village on the flight path to Plymouth, and endured many nights of sleepless listening as the German planes roared overhead on their way to bomb Plymouth. It took her a long time to write, a project that she took up and laid aside during the early days of the Second World War. His story is William’s in most particulars.Įlizabeth herself said she “made it New Zealand because my ignorance of Australia was, even more, total than my ignorance of New Zealand.” The book is based on the life experiences of Elizbeth’s Great Uncle William, who left the island to join the British Navy, went on shore leave at an eastern port, missed his ship after “getting into a scrape” and found a ship bound for Australia. And in real life also the man held his tongue about his mistake and made a good job of his marriage.” That a man who had emigrated to the New World should after a lapse of years write home for a bride, and then get the wrong one because he had confused her name with that of her sister, may seem to the reader highly improbable yet it happened. ![]() “Though this book is fiction, and the characters, not portraits, it is based on fact. ![]()
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