Who wraps their book manuscript in brown paper and ties it up with string, wondered, chief executive of publisher, opening the package that had landed on his desk. Actually, who sends a physical manuscript at all in this digital era? According to the title page, one.

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“I am a Hodder author,” the accompanying note read. “I am hoping you will consider my new novel.” Williams paused. Download Game Ukts Busmod Indonesia Full Version. Hodder didn’t have any authors called Frank White. But he read on: “I am 88 years old. You published my.” Intrigued, Williams began reading the manuscript - Frank’s new novel, his third, hit the shelves this summer.

A wonderful read, packed with incident, colour and detail, chronicles life in a fictional Lincolnshire village from June 1940 to New Year’s Eve, as the Battle of Britain raged and the Blitz began. Despite the privations and tensions it depicts, with many villagers fearing an imminent German invasion, it is gently elegiac. Fifty-two years between books might not be a world record (; ) but it is highly unusual.

Frank, who will be 90 next week, explains the half-century gap when we meet at the Lincolnshire home he shares with his wife, June. At various times he worked as a publican; for a trade magazine covering the textile industry; and as a publicity manager for companies in Rochdale and Bradford. “As a writer, I thought I’d said everything I wanted to,” says Frank. “Then it dawned on me that I was probably one of the very few people left who could write about those days in 1940 after Dunkirk.' The novel is perfect Sunday night TV material, surely an especially attractive proposition now given the current success of.

Frank picks up in the aftermath, when the British Army had been driven out of France, the nation was isolated, surrounded on three sides by the enemy, and braced for invasion, any day. “That air of confident optimism which had hung about people’s heads like a halo during the early days of the war – that conviction that it was only a matter of time before invincible Britain drove Hitler and his hordes from the face of the earth – had been blown away by the icy wind from Dunkirk,” he writes. “In people’s eyes now you could see unmistakable signs of anxiety.”. “Those bad times were so important - ‘their finest hour’ - but they are rapidly disappearing from living memory so I thought that while I was able to do so, I should have a go at it.” It’s so vivid that I assumed it must have been based on Frank’s own experiences in a small village. In fact he was born in Manchester in 1927, where as a 13 year-old, he witnessed the impact of the Blitz at close quarters; once getting strafed by a low-flying on its way to bomb an aircraft factory just up the road. His father Percy had fought in the First World War and his older brother William was killed in the in 1943. Frank joined the Royal Navy as soon as he was able to, in 1944 at the age of 17, and served in the British Pacific Fleet.

His other interests are sketching - his charming line drawings appear throughout There Was A Time - and cigarettes; half-way through our interview, he asks if I mind if he temporarily retires to ‘the Smoking Room’, while June, who has been sitting with us in the living room, knitting, makes me a cup of tea strong enough to stand a spoon up in. A former 30-a-day man, Frank can now “get by on seven or eight Silk Cut - I’ve been smoking for so long it’d do me more harm than good to give up.” Both he and his wife are as sharp as tacks and appear to be in good physical shape. “I’m not so sure about that,” Frank says, laughing. “I have had five heart attacks.” The most recent was five years ago. “Optimism,” says June. “Having something to look forward to tomorrow - no matter how small.” “I think it’s pressure,’ says Frank.

“Some small pressure on you to get up.” “Also we eat healthily,’ says June. “And we rarely drink these days.” And they have each other. They will be celebrating their 68th wedding anniversary this year. “You have to be good friends,” says June.

“That’s the crucial thing,” agrees Frank. “We’re great pals. We do get on each other’s wick from time to time but I don’t think we’ve had any really cross words.”. Despite encouragement from June and his publisher, Frank is not currently working on another book. “I’ve told Hodder that it’s very unlikely,” he says. “A book has to come out of my innards.

I have to feel it. I can’t just decide to write about something.”, about the break-up of a marriage, was reissued as an ebook when There Was A Time came out - so he must soon be able to afford to update that vacuum cleaner? “It is exciting,” says Frank, “but, to be honest, I see the book as a kind of farewell.” “No, Frank,” admonishes June, putting down her knitting and looking at him with concern.