The Best-Laid Plans

<p>Two young men and a female nurse are caught in the middle of a global conflict. They seek to normalise their lives through affection for their colleagues and a healthy disrespect for authority. Caught in the midst of a secret government project they heroically organise games and food for their colleagues.</p><p>This story of ordinary people in extraordinary times reveals more about the characters than they would like to reveal.</p><p>An aeroplane navigator Maps is the type of man that men would like to be like and women would like to be with. He is charged with mentoring his pilot Chipper.</p><p>Victoria is an English rose whose attitude and demeanour are shaped by a strange and dominant father yet are tempered by the affection of everyone she meets.</p><p>Maps and Victoria are irresistibly drawn to each other. However officialdom and government rules contrive to keep them apart. Fate has other plans.</p><p><em>The Best-Laid Plans</em> reveals that even in the midst of a war there is much that we all have in common.</p><p><strong>(About the Author)</strong></p><p>David Gubbins grew up in the beautiful Cotswolds area of England. He is now a resident in the UK city of Reading. This book was inspired by a lifetime of dreaming about and working with aeroplanes.</p><p> </p>