On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, 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.''Fabulous, often funny .
On the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In 2013, 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.''Fabulous, often funny .