Fiction & Family History: Making A Creative Connection
I've been researching my family tree, partly because I was just curious and partly to see if there were any interesting facts or stories that would inspire my fiction writing. This series of books is based on certain moments and aspects of the lives of the family members I've come across during my research. Rather than being biographies of the lives of particular relatives, each book is based on a single set of facts or a moment in their lives, and how they might have been affected by them. The books are all in the same format: Part 1 - The Fiction followed by Part 2 - The Facts. The fiction section takes the known facts and uses them to create a story which speculates on and fills in the parts that are missing and unknown.
From Hexham to Barry - One Moment in Grandad's War
In March 1918, my grandfather, private John 'Jack' Vause, was declared medically fit after being wounded in the fighting around Ypres, in Belgium. After two weeks' leave in Hexham, Northumberland, Jack travelled to the other end of the country, to Barry, in Wales, to join a reserve battalion and await new orders. While in Barry, Jack struggled with his experiences and his situation, which resulted in his making a decision that interrupted the direction of his war.
From Hexham to Barry explores Jack's emotional dilemma at this moment in his young life, raising questions about the purpose - and the futility - of war which still resonate today, over one hundred years after Jack's own story.
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