Charlotte Betts

A warm welcome today to my guest author Carol McGrath, writing about her love of research into historical costumes for her novels.

The Stone Rose a richly descriptive account of a royal household in medieval times and follows the story of Isabella from her marriage at fifteen to King Edward II to the end of her life.

The Great War was on a scale that hadn’t been seen in living memory. It tore families apart, forcing the men into the great mincer of the war machine and spitting some of them out at the other end. Nearly a whole generation of men was lost and those that did return home would never be quite the same again.

Many of us have been told stories of family members who served in WWI and the difficulties and privations they faced. Many of these ordinary men rose to the challenges of war to became heroes. Both my grandfathers may be counted amongst them.

An insight into my grandfather’s military service with a Searchlight Unit in WWI.