Trespass in Heaven by David Bruce

One for the boys we initially thought because of the technical detail included, but is it? Set in January 1944, with secret D-Day preparations underway – secret being the operative word. So when an untouchable German reconnaissance aircraft threatens to blow the whole shenanigans open, the race begins… Somehow a small team, including ace night fighter pilot Fl Lt Alec Keats must attempt to solve the technical problems dogging Britain’s last hope – an interceptor capable of challenging the interloper.

But is there just the one interloper? Is a WAAF who seems to be far too close to the unit’s CO quite what she seems?

So, though Frost initially thought, as I said that this is one for the boys because of the technical details, there is more than enough plot for all genders, if one dares use that term anymore.

David Bruce has written a novel about a vital operation, with a sense of time and place, and a cutting edge plot. Bravo.

Trespass in Heaven by David Bruce: Kindle but pb arriving soon.

A Life Lived Remotely by Siobhan Mckeown

At Frost, many of us work from home. So this was of interest, particularly the blending of work/life and how to mark a difference between the two.

Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely follows the author’s journey from a 9-to-5 out to work life, to freelancing and working remotely, which is so much more possible in this digital age. But that is as maybe, what about the sense of a team, or lack of it? What about living with our work, how do we separate the two? How do we make people understand it is a REAL job, and actually, though we’re home, we’re not able to babysit during ‘our’ office hours, and more importantly, how do we, the worker, work out this life/work relationship without steam coming out of our ears?

A Life Live Remotely  reflects on these and also tackles larger questions like What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? The digital world is a fast paced communicating tool, so how do we pause it, or our lives at least?

The book to me was composed of many questions the author has asked herself, with no pedantic answers given, merely some reflections pertaining to herself. But the questions are important for us all to enable us to reflect upon our freelance world, and perhaps the discipline needed to organise a sensible balance.

Interesting. We’re still talking about it.

A Life Lived Remotely by Siobhan McKeown

 

Hope on the Waterways by Milly Adams is launched on 20th September.