This is the author's story of his evacuation in 1939 at the age of six, with his brother and sister from Sheffield in the North of England, to the safety of relatives in Cork in Southern Ireland. He should have been in Eire for the duration of the war but was deported back to Britain in 1943. The young Neil continues to get into trouble to the end of the book, VE Night, 1945.
Neil was a practising hypnotherapist for much of his working life and on his retirement revisited this period of his childhood seeking answers to memories and flashbacks that had haunted him for more than sixty...