S.S. Asteroid Or Tell It to the Bees

The nostalgic, poetic and often humorous story of three actual and metaphorical voyages within the historic landscape of two world wars. On the first voyage, a young schoolgirl evacuates to America just before the Blitz; a second is made to recapture forty lost years in her beloved wealds and downs of Sussex; the last voyage she is unable or unwilling to complete. A fusion of history, personal memories and fiction, Josephine Johnson has written a moving account of an historic vessel, an ancient village and daunting tidal river through the voices of war-scarred characters, who echo the pull and tug of their native soil and the river Adur.