The award-winning British writing pair behind One Year One Night by SL Roman have got another great review.

This time it’s from Kirkus Books based in New York which has more than 30 thousand followers.

Laura Meloni and Sarah Onions have emphasised in online interviews that they do their own historical research for their first novel set in southern England in WW2.

Laura got a first class degree from Rome University and she and Sarah used a wide range of sources. These included a trip to Egham Museum, 2 visits to Brighton, an interview with a member of the family on which the novel is based and websites from the Imperial War Museum and the BBC.  

One of the true tales discovered by Laura in the archives was about soldiers being offered baths in the homes of the British during the war, for ‘our brave warriors’.

This vivid piece of life was used to create humour and establish the obsessive character of Mr Cribbles, a classic busybody.

Cribbles, the village warden inspects the state of the baths in Millside to the heroine’s irritation. 

The Kirkus review picked up that description, commenting on a ‘vivid chronicle of the lives of girls and women during WW2’.

One Year One Night will arrive in bookshops in North America on August 1 and pre-orders are already being taken. It’s also being sold around the world in a digital form, including an e-book and an audio book on Amazon.com. And it’s on sale in paperback on Amazon.co.uk and selected independent bookshops in the greater London area.     

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