Michael Foreman

Beginning in 1945, the author describes an idyllic childhood in post-war Suffolk.

Michael Foreman looks back on his wartime childhood in a village on the Suffolk coast. He captures the strangeness of a British coastline hastily fortified with pillboxes, barbed wire and barrage balloons; a normally quiet seaside town swarming with servicemen; and how, in this stragely altered world, the eternal childhood preoccupations endure.