Evalyn May's hopes for her daughter, Judith, are that she will escape her father's harsh oversight and go on to greater things - things once denied to her at the end of the Great War. Evalyn has high hopes for her daughter - youngest of six children. Judith is the first to be grammar school educated or indeed to show any real interest in education at all.
Unfortunately, all that is in danger of being thrown away by Judith's latest choice of partner. What on earth can she possibly be thinking? If only Judith had chosen a husband similar to her neice's. Then Evalyn's joy would have been complete.
Now, there is seemingly little or no chance of that, however. The daughter for whom Evalyn has greatest ambition for progression in the world has clearly chosen a different path in life. A bed she has made upon which she will now have to lie.
Barbara LeBlanc (née Sanderson)Judith May is based upon my mother, Barbara LeBlanc, who married my father in August 1959. She contributed greatly to the writing of this book. The scene in which my parents met, I'm faithfully informed, is almost verbatim. Having reviewed much of the writing, she was a stickler for detail, ensuring that as much of the story as possible be faithful to true events. Of course, artistic licence is necessarily used here and there, but having someone who was very much there at the time was greatly beneficial. |
