From childhood, siblings David Hardie and Diana Townsend loved telling stories.
While still at school, despite being dyslexic, David won a competition to have a play he had written produced by the BBC.
As teenagers, David and Diana helped their father build an animated model of a three-ring circus which was exhibited around the UK. Later, the family bought a derelict school which they transformed into a tourist attraction.
Diana has written a series of memoirs about these years under the title Me, My Family and the Poltergeist.
When the tourist attraction closed, the family started a new business creating Christmas displays for shopping centres as well as hand-sculpting thousands of figures for model villages across the UK.
In more recent years, David and Diana, together with Diana’s husband, Robert Townsend, have produced a number of short films and two feature films.
While David’s children were young, he told them stories of the Dittos, invisible elf-like creatures who live in the seaside town of Dawlish, helping to look after wildlife and clean up after visitors.
Working with Diana, David has now developed these stories into a trilogy of books under the title The Dittos of Dawlish.
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As the First World War rages, the women of the Dick Kerr Ladies football team fight for wounded soldiers in the only way they can – on the pitch.
When best friends, Florrie and Alice, apply for jobs at the Dick Kerrs munitions factory, Alice, the clever one, is sent to work in the drilling shop, while Florrie finds herself ramming explosives into an endless row of brass shells.
Soon Alice hears her soldier boyfriend has been sent home injured and begs Florrie to go with her to visit him. The young women are horrified to find the hospital overwhelmed, with patients lying on stretchers still caked in mud from the trenches, and exhausted nurses struggling to cope without even the most basic necessities.
Alice is distraught and, in an attempt, to comfort her, Florrie vows to find a way to raise money for the hospital. Together, they form a plan and recruit other women from the factory to join them.
But not everyone wants them to succeed.
To Florrie's surprise, they face opposition from their families, their workmates and their neighbours.
Determined not to give up, the women are delighted when help comes from an unexpected source.
It seems their goal is within reach, but as the number of wounded soldiers increases, will the
women be able to raise enough money to keep the hospital open?
This book has been inspired by the true story of the Dick Kerrs Ladies Football team.
Título : The Match
EAN : 9781739489519
Editorial : Ussons
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