Nick Evans

A Glass Darkly (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A wartime love story. A conscientious objector. Two disasters. A boy left alone.

This wide-ranging memoir tracks the author's childhood through happiness to the depths of sadness, understanding his sense of loss and the impact on his life and personality.

In later life, he delves deep into his parents' past and finds a love story for the generations. It is a tale of separation, yearning and determination as his father is sent, as a pacifist, to India during the war, leaving behind his prospective fiancée and his aspirations to become a minister in the Methodist Church. His diary documents travels that are long and fraught with danger and his experience as a medic in the Royal Army Medical Corps exposes him to the brutality of war.

The author's research reveals not only the parents he knew only briefly as a child, but also how their love and care impacted his life and led him to understand more about his own sense of purpose.

Full of pen portraits of a child's life in the '50s and '60s, this heartwarming memoir and its associated wartime diary tells the tale about a troubled youngster who grew into an adult, trying to find some meaning in life and coping with the fallout of bereavement and loss.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Evans
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231626595
• Artikelnr.: 74259611

Autorenporträt

Nick Evans is a Poole-based author who has a background in technical writing. Some years ago he wrote two books in a scifi series for children, entitled "Xalata Orbit and Melody Fret". He's also been working on a third one to complete the trilogy. However, his time in the past couple of years has been taken in writing his memoir, "A Glass Darkly", which explores the early death of his parents and the impact it had on him. Despite the subject matter, it's a heartwarming read which has been warmly welcomed.

During his extensive career in sales and marketing, he has also had a sideline as a freelance journalist, writing for The Guardian, The Times Educational Supplement and a range of magazines in education, technology and business. He has published books on the use of computers in schools and on building businesses through research.

He is now largely retired from the company - Extramile Digital - that he and his wife set up in April 2000. It's recently celebrated a landmark birthday and continues to go from strength to strength. Meanwhile, he continues writing and enjoying the wonders of the South Coast. His current project is a follow-up to "A Glass Darkly".