Parallel Lives: A Story of the Greatest Generation, and a Love affair that transcends the ages.

From the best-selling author of ‘None Stood Taller’, short-listed for the independently published book of the year 2022. Despite the hardships of war, two people dare to believe that somewhere in the ruins of London, they will find love, but tragedy awaits them both. Emma is a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Her tragedy is that St Thomas’s was bombed eight times during the Blitz. The destruction and loss of life were devastating, but incredibly, the hospital didn’t once close its doors. Emma’s contribution towards that achievement will reduce you to tears and inspire you in equal measure. Roger is a police detective embroiled in the hunt for a serial killer. His tragedy is to live and work in Balham, South London. When a bomb penetrates the Balham Underground Station, where six hundred Londoners, including Roger, are sheltering, a disaster unfolds that changes his life forever. He loses everything except hope. Hope that the future might once again contain happiness. This is a period of unimaginable inhumanity, a period when ordinary civilians found themselves on the frontline. The nation didn’t surrender; Emma continued to save lives, and Roger maintained law and order, but they did much more. Like so many, they refused to abandon the essential spirit that defines them as human. They believed that good would overcome evil, they believed in a future without war, and that love would find a way. Emma and Roger represent the triumph of the human they are two of the greatest generation.