Jenny Wiliamson's War - near future spec fic - preface

Preface.

I have always had an interest in writing and history.  As a child I'd spent my time with my head buried in books or writing things down. It seems a lifetime ago now and I suppose as I enter my seventy-third year that is precisely what it is. All that writing never came to anything more than a few piles of battered old notebooks crammed with half finished stories and drawings.  

Adulthood came and left little time for those hobbies. Work and my life as a wife and mother seemed to fill all available moments of my days and nights. Now however I have the time once more. Perhaps nobody much will be interested in this old women's words, but it feels more important than ever to get them written down.

There are many books and dramatisations of those troubled times that filled my middle aged years and whose impact is still keenly felt as I head into old age. I make no claim that this story is the most comprehensive, the most dramatic or even the most entertainingly written of those available. All I can say is that it's an honest tale of an ordinary, working class northern family living in extraordinary times.  Of how we saw those life changing events begin to unfold, of how it affected our lives as the tensions rose and of how in the end, despite it all, we made it through. 

This is my story. Jenny Williamson's War. 



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