Catching up with the Past

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Catching up with the Past </em><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a fascinating account of Michael Windross' life. From his early childhood in Cumberland it moves to London - where as a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral he also sang at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in the Abbey; then to Lancing College to Cambridge and crossing the North Sea to Antwerp. Events follow in a linear progression - but with echoes from a distant past.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In part two the reader is transported back to Dumfriesshire in the nineteenth century and taken on a journey that retraces the family past not only through written records but also through objects which tell their own tale. The narrative follows the now familiar path but then shifts to Australia Gallipoli and in World War II to the Anzio beachhead - as described by the author's father Brian in letters written to Doris his wife. The story comes full circle.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a life well lived. The book will appeal to those who share the writer's love of the past who have a strong sense of time and place - and are game for a bit of detective work!</span></p>