This month on Yesterday Uncovered we
slip back to the 1940's
Sitting, in the shade, on a recliner at the side of my
pool is Dodie Hamilton, author of Second Chance, so please help yourself to a
glass of chilled bubbly, a plate of tapas, then make yourself comfortable and
enjoy slipping back to the 1940's.
I am Dodie
Hamilton and known to friends and clients around the world as the Spiritual
Midwife. The name was given to me while working as a councillor with a
particular interest in Out-of-Body Travelling and Near Death Experience.
A dream inspired me to write of the 1940s,
pretty much the whole of A Second Chance arriving one night bringing the story
of the GI Bride, beautiful Adelia Challoner, and the men that loved her. It was a wonderful dream, full of passion and
colour, I knew I had to set it down when in that same year I went to a party
and there came face-to-face with one of the main characters.
The story begins in 1942, Adelia working in St
Faiths Hospital, Suffolk, where she meets an American pilot, the mad and definitely
bad Bobby Rourke, and how in that same year the village of Needham is bombed.
Lives are destroyed. Adelia is hurt in the blast and recovers consciousness to
learn all memories of the previous day and what happened there - the joy and
the pain – lies buried beneath the bandages on her head. Others try filling in
the gaps, how she was seen walking in the park with a soldier, ‘a gorgeous guy with the bluest eyes.’ One man knows exactly what happened August 1st.
He was there and saw it all but isn’t telling, at least, not until she’s safely
aboard a liner on her way to America and a new life in Virginia.
During WW2
the Suffolk coast airbases were inundated American service-men, their smooth
uniforms and handsome faces creating the sardonic quip, ‘over-here, over-paid, and
over-sexed.’ The GI Bride plan came about in ’46, wives and girlfriends of
American servicemen brought to the States aboard ships like the Queen
Mary. Many of the women found happiness there,
other found misery, Adelia Challoner found an Angel masquerading as an
undertaker.
The characters in A Second Chance are based on
a dream. One such I met at a party. Across the room seen from a side-view he
was probably the best-looking man I had ever seen, really quite beautiful, and
then he turned, and in that moment became Captain America, Lieutenant Robert E
Rourke, DFC. The second male, Alexander
Hunter, is based on a newspaper headline I read in the US Amy Magazine Stars ‘N
Stripes about a soldier escaping from a German POW camp. The third, and the
Mightiest, is Gabriel Templar, jail-bird and US Marine, a Becoming Angel, here
on Earth to learn how it feels to be human, and who I have since learned was
never meant for one book, rather for a quartet, entitled, The Helplessness of
Angels, three of the Quartet now written.
WW2 and the Southern States of America in the
‘40s required a lot of research, as did conditions here in Britain during the
Second World War, yet as said before Adelia and her lovers are known to me,
and, arriving like sparkling diamonds they continue to be known. I love them
all and want to give them and their individual lives a voice that can be heard
everywhere.
I hope you will read about them and love them
as I love them
Thank you for listening Dear Book
Lovers.
I wish you happiness and peace.
Dodie Hamilton.
The Spiritual Midwife
Links to my books can be found on UK
and USA Amazon Kindle
www. Dodie Hamilton Books.
Spirit Knights Paranormal Investigation.
Spirit Knights Paranormal Investigation.
Goodreads.
Info about me, Dodie Hamilton
#SpiritualMidwife can be found on facebook, Mind, Body and Spirit, and
numerous other sites.
e-mail address
dodie.hamilton@btinternet.com
Reluctant Angels, the prequel to A Second
Chance is soon to be available in hard-copy, and, hopefully, the rest to
follow.
Thank you for stopping by and meeting Dodie.
On Thursday, Jennifer S Alderson talks about
Please call back again very soon to catch up on news and more revisits from the 1940's
Pauline
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