Against the Tide (52 page)

Because of this I've always had a strong affinity with that period and an urge to relive it through the eyes of a young man who would have been my mother's age at the time. I wanted to experience what it must have been like to cope with all that was thrown at the hapless islanders after the British government abandoned them to the less than tender mercies of the Germans.

I'd already written The Last Boat before Against The Tide was published and have planned a series which follows the main characters through the war years. Following the success of the first novel, it's now time to launch the second and throw myself into 1941 for the third which I have provisionally entitled Room 39 '