AH/2/2/48 - Just Finishing His Time (unpublished)
Reference code
AH/2/2/48
Level of description
File
Title
Just Finishing His Time (unpublished)
Date/s
1986-1989
Subject
Literature rejected for publication
Scope and content
See also AH/11/11.
This book is rejected by Souvenir press, Robert Hale Ltd, Constable, William Kimber & Co., Victor Gollancz, Chatto & Windus, and Andre Deutsch.
AH describes this book (letter 27/8/99 in 'Gently Mistaken' file).
“It relates the experiences of a young airman (me) in 1942, but seen through the eyes of a paranoid character with whom I was posted to the airfield involved. If I had known more about his affliction I might have drawn it to the attention of the authorities, and what happened wouldn’t have happened, but I was only nineteen at the time … The airfield was Tempsford, near Sandy and just down the road (A1) from St. Neots (used later in 'Gently Where the Roads Go'). We were dropping agents on the other side – very high security!”
This book is rejected by Souvenir press, Robert Hale Ltd, Constable, William Kimber & Co., Victor Gollancz, Chatto & Windus, and Andre Deutsch.
AH describes this book (letter 27/8/99 in 'Gently Mistaken' file).
“It relates the experiences of a young airman (me) in 1942, but seen through the eyes of a paranoid character with whom I was posted to the airfield involved. If I had known more about his affliction I might have drawn it to the attention of the authorities, and what happened wouldn’t have happened, but I was only nineteen at the time … The airfield was Tempsford, near Sandy and just down the road (A1) from St. Neots (used later in 'Gently Where the Roads Go'). We were dropping agents on the other side – very high security!”
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AH/2 - Correspondence with publishers and literary agents