![]() ![]() With Shadow, I was inspired to write about a contemporary conflict. War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the "pity of war" as Wilfred Owen called it. All I knew was what I'd been told, that he'd given his life for our freedom. ![]() I knew my uncle Pieter, killed in 1940 in the RAF, through a photograph, through the stories I heard of him, through the grief my mother, his sister, lived every day of her life. But I soon learned that much more than buildings was destroyed by war. I lived next to a bombsite, played in it because we weren't supposed to, and because it was the best adventure playground imaginable. As I grew up, I soon learned how war had torn my world apart. ![]()
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