Lemon Meringue Pie

by Keith Watson

Overview

Lemon Meringue Pie Steven Barkley has just completed his National Service and is on the point of leaving Cyprus when he receives a letter which he places in his pocket intending to read later. Dawn is just breaking when, passing over Europe, he opens the letter and on reading it receives a shock which will change his life forever. Reluctant to divulge the letters contents, he returns to work in the City feeling bored, guilty and demoralised. A chance sighting of a newspaper advertisement offering a new life down under for just ten pounds appeals to him as impulsively he joins the queue in The Strand outside Australia House. Revelation of the letter plus the Suez crisis and Hungarian uprising, make the purpose for migrating easier for Stevens family to understand as he joins the exodus on a ship load of Ten Pound Poms, bound for Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781456778903
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	04/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	328 KB

About the Author

Keith Watson was born in Edmonton, North London and was three years old at the start of World War II. He left school at seventeen and a year later was conscripted for National Service in the Army. As an NCO in the Middlesex Regiment he served with the Occupation Forces in Austria and on active service in Cyprus. After two years he returned to work as a Civil Servant at New Scotland Yard and quickly followed the call to become a London Policeman. After four years in the Force, he changed career and became a sales representative, eventually progressing to Sales Director. Keith, now retired, lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife Maureen. They have three children and eight grandchildren. Following the success of his first book, Rough Justice, his latest, 'Lemon Meringue Pie' is set in the Fifties, a time of much turmoil in the world including the 'Cold War', Suez crisis and Hungarian uprising. Food was still rationed in Britain and many UK Citizens were emigrating to Australia seeking a better life.