Born in the 40s

Tim Glynne-Jones is a writer living in Reigate, Surrey. He grew up in Croydon and spent his childhood playing among the bomb craters on the famous old airfield where Neville Chamberlain had waved his piece of paper before the war. His father and mother were nine and four respectively when war broke out and later passed on their accounts of evacuation, rationing, air raids and dog fights. Those childhood tales helped to inform much of this book.