Book description
I STILL REMEMBER THE YANKS, ALMOST MORE THAN I DO THE WAR' A Suffolk woman.
It was August 1943 - and the inhabitants of King's Thorpe had lived
with the idea of invasion for some time - but by the Germans, not the
Americans. The village had never seen anything like them before -
certainly they were different with their wealth, their glamour, and
their louche but romantic uniforms. Some of the older villagers, like
the Brigadier, resented them on sight, others welcomed them with weak
tea and fish paste sandwiches. But in some lives they were to make a
long-lasting and emotional impact - most especially young Sally Barnet
from the bakery, Agnes Dawe, the Rector's daughter, and newly-widowed
Lady Beauchamp from the Manor.
Margaret Mayhew was born in London and her earliest childhood
memories were of the London Blitz. She began writing in her mid-thirties
and had her first novel published in 1976. She is married to American
aviation author, Philip Kaplan, and lives in Gloucestershire. Her
novels, Bluebirds, The Crew, The Little Ship, Our Yanks, The Pathfinder
and Those In Peril are all published by Corgi Books.
