The proof has arrived!

I'm thrilled with my Greenwich Girl proof, which arrived last night. If weight is anything to go by, it's good value for money! This is a meaty book, packed with all the memoirs, letters and notes my mum left behind. There are so many interesting strands. Here are just a few of the many topics covered:

• Life in Greenwich in the 1920s and 1930s.
• The village of North Aston.
• SELTI (South East London Technical College).
• May Queens of Merrie England.
• Wartime Greenwich.
• Training and working in Millinery.
• Volunteering as an ARP Warden.
• RNZAF Bomber Crews.
• Red Cross training during WW2.
• The Royal Masonic Hospital.
• VAD Red Cross Nursing in India.
• Abbotababad and Dehra Dun.
• Westcombe Park Rugby Club.
• Women working at the Midland Bank.
• Grotton, Lancashire in the 1940s.
• Hardgate, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire in the 1950s.
• J Stone and Co in the UK and India.
• Calcutta (Kolkata) in the 1950s.
• Post colonial India and partition.
• British schools in India (Miss Scrimshaw's School).
• Manufacturing in India.
• Rayner Optical Company.
• Rayner Intraocular Lenses.
• An honest account of Alzheimers.

The book is accompanied by family cine film from the 1950s onwards. There's a playlist on YouTube which is growing daily. I hope to complete it by 26th March.

Greenwich Girl will be published on 26th March, the 100th anniversary of my mother's birth. The paperback book is available to pre-order at the Great British Bookshop (our preferred online retailer) at £19.99. You can also pre-order on Kindle at £7.99.