But for now, I hope you enjoy Series 1 and the non-fiction book I wrote in 2012.
As the series progresses there are hints of what will develop in Series 2 as the war progresses. He has taken the DNA of my book and created a fictional village, complete with Women’s Institute, to tell the story of the Second World War from the women’s perspective. What you will see on PBS is Simon Block’s brilliant drama featuring favourites Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis, as well as some superb young British talent. Those are the stories you will read in my book Home Fires, published by Penguin USA. This was no parochial village set-up but a great national organisation of women who had enormous power which they wielded sparingly but with judicious precision. The following year Princess Elizabeth joined her mother, The Queen (later the Queen Mother) and her grandmother, Queen Mary, as a member of the WI. As a result of the visit was the WI was presented with nine canning vans with Ford V-Chassis to help with fruit preservation, and some 500 canning machines. She was accompanied by Lady Denman of the Women’s Land Army and the WI, Mrs Churchill, Lady Reading of the Women’s Voluntary Service and sixty members of the press. It was so highly regarded that in 1942 there was an official visit from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to a WI in Kent, southern England. The book itself is an historical non-fiction account of how the Women’s Institute of England and Wales pulled together in the early months of the Second World War and overcame bureaucratic logjams, civil servants’ antipathy and the Phoney War. The story of how Jambusters became Home Fires is told in the first chapter of the US edition.
In the UK we kept the original title Jambusters for the book, while the series, written by script-writer Simon Block, is called Home Fires. I hope there will be no confusion between the TV drama series soon to play out on your screens and my book of the same title. A note for American visitors to my websiteĪ very warm welcome to the home of Home Fires and my other non-fiction books.
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