I started reading A Surfeit of Aunts by Daphne Coyne, 
and the write up states:
"This book concerns life in
the twenty-five years before and during the second world war. Born in 1922, my
first ten years were very happy years. Things changed with the sudden death of
my father. Because he was a vicar, the family had to leave the vicarage in six
weeks with no home to go to and very little money. To help my mother, her three
widowed sisters (the aunts) came on the scene. The only security, away from
this merry-go-round of our family life, was in boarding school and then the
services. My brother in the Army and I in the WRNS. I was a plotter and worked
in operations rooms at several naval bases. The last one was shortly before the
invasion began. I was sent to Fort Southwick, near Portsmouth. I worked here,
in the underground, steel lined, plotting room of ‘combined headquarters’ as
‘Operation Overlord’ unfolded in miniature on the plotting table in front of
me. When the invasion was safely under way, I was posted to ‘tactical anti-submarine
training’ in Scotland."
So far I am loving it! Though I confess I shed a tear or two over the description of her father's death.
Well, I'm also reading
The Firm by John Grisham having seen the film a number of times. It's great seeing the similarities and differences.
What are y'awl reading?
