Dear Reader,
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” – Toni Morrison
This is how I started writing and why I write.
My latest translation, the Spanish version of Snow in August, available soon 🙂
My latest audiobook. We hope to complete production next week 🙂
“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.” – Thomas Mann
You mean, I’m not a genius?! 🤣
“Some cry with tears, others with thoughts.” – Octavio Paz
Picture: On the Green Bank, Sanary, 1911 – Henri Lebasque
A statue problem, solved. From 1949.
This week is refugee week. My country, Wales, has a proud history of welcoming refugees. This picture shows the children at Cambria House, Caerleon, Basque refugees from the Spanish Civil War.
Sandra Puhl translated my Ann’s War series into German and I’m delighted that she has agreed to translate my Eve’s War series. One of the joys of writing is working with creative people.
Art as therapy.
A crochet panel produced by George Preece following a life-changing accident at Abercynon Colliery in 1909.
George was involved in a transport accident which resulted in the loss of both legs. Unable to work again, he spent his time making the crochet panel, and other items from old food tins.
I enjoyed this film this week. During the first half, I thought the hero and heroine were too flippant for the subject matter. However, a tragic incident at the halfway mark changed the mood and the various strands came together to produce a suspenseful conclusion. Not a classic, but a good variation on the POW theme.
Brittany, 16 August 1944. Members of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior). Their uniforms show the French flag with the Free French emblem, the Cross of Lorraine.
By mid-August 1944 the Nazis were in full retreat and these women were contemplating the liberation of Paris, which arrived after a week-long battle, 19 August to 25 August.
Approximately twenty percent of the FFI were women. Many fought alongside their husbands, including Cécile Rol-Tanguy, Lucie Aubrac, Paulette Kriegel-Valrimont, Hélène Viannay, Cletta Mayer and Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux. They organised acts of sabotage, wrote and distributed newspapers, and freed many from Nazi concentration camps. Indeed, Marie-Hélène Postel-Vinay rescued Pierre Lefaucheux from a Gestapo prison camp. The couple subsequently married.
As ever, thank you for your interest and support.
Hannah xxx
Hannah Howe 