Ebook {Epub PDF} There Was a Time by Frank White

On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In , he started to write this novel. 'What I wanted to do,' he says, 'was to capture that feeling of those times and remind people of what the country went through.'/5(45).  · On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In , he started to write this novel.'What I wanted to do,' he says, 'was to capture that feeling of.  · More than fifty years after his first book was published, he wrote There Was A Time, published to critical acclaim in Frank lived at Marshchapel, Lincolnshire, with his wife June. Frank died in December

Frank White's novel, set in a Lincolnshire village in evokes a nostalgic, unchanging English countryside at a time when England was at war. Alongside this written evocation are tiny peen and ink illustrations that rather reminded me of books I had as a child - Swallows and Amazons comes to mind. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for There Was a Time by Frank White (, UK-B Format Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! There Was a Time Hardback by Frank White. In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours. Share. Description. From an author who lived through - and served in - the conflict, a brilliant novel set in an English village at a turning point of the Second World War. A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer's morning in , the countryside as.

On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In , he started to write this novel. 'What I wanted to do,' he says, 'was to capture that feeling of those times and remind people of what the country went through.'. There Was a Time vividly evokes life in a Lincolnshire village in Elegantly written and with beautifully-drawn characters, this absorbing story, amusing and poignant by turns, tells of the impact of the last War on a small, close-knit community. -- Gervase Phinn. There Was a Time by Frank White. A Lincolnshire village on a glorious summer’s morning in , the countryside as still as a painting. In the blue sky above, the fate of the whole war will soon rest with the RAF and their desperate effort to win the Battle of Britain. If they fail, Hitler’s next step will be invasion.