Home Front
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Sometimes the War can seem very far away. Invalided ex-RAF pilot Robert Sugden has enough on his plate. There's his estranged wife's manor house and estate to manage for a start. Plus a dozen land girls staying at the manor. But there is precious little of the male company he craves.
Then the War office makes him house a dozen young men working at the re-opened local coal mine. Not in uniform, but doing their bit for the War effort as much as anyone. And everything changes when a withdrawn, fresh-faced young miner appears for the first time. Aaron Dingle.
CHAPTER 17 Added 22 June 2017 - "Losing and Winning"
CHAPTER 18 Added 23 June 2017 -"It's the end of the War, but it's not the end of me and you"CHAPTER 19 Added 24 June 2017 - EPILOGUE - Story now complete
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- Part 1 of Home Front
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To the World, Robert Sugden is a divorced, invalided ex-RAF pilot who works somewhere high up in the National Trust. And Aaron Dingle is his handyman, driver and housekeeper who works for him at his home, Hadleigh Manor Gatehouse.
But to those that care about them the most, they are together. There's Grandmother Faith and Wartime friend Patrick for a start, both living at her Blackpool Guesthouse where Aaron was brought up. And there is best friend Adam and his wife Victoria, now running the Sugden Farm (with regular interference from father Jack).
This is a companion piece to my Wartime Robron, “Love on the Home Front”. It is set between 1945 and the 1953 Epilogue in that story. My 40s & 50s take on Robert and Aaron is a romantic work. Here the lads are solid, despite what life throws at them and their loved ones.
Chapter 60 added 9 June 2018 - "Better off without me"
Chapter 61 added 28 July 2018 - "One big happy family"
Chapter 62 added 12 October 2018 - "I Can See Your Future"Series
- Part 2 of Home Front