Title: Thursday Afternoon
Subtitle: a novel
Description: The outbreak of WW2 means a Canadian teenager spends his formative years growing up in England. Intelligent and thoughtful, slightly naive, he does his best to fit in. A skill with electronics helps, but he’s always a bit of an outsider.
 
As Brussels falls to the Allies, a German mine blows up the truck he is in, killing his comrades, and he and a young Flemish widow with an infant daughter must deal with the aftermath, both immediate and in the post-War period.
Subjects: historical novel, WW2
Places: London, Ottawa, Halifax, Brussels, Paris, Oxford
Time periods: 1938-1947