David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.
It remains with one long after the story is told, a haunting sadness, a memory and a dream -- Olivia Manning * Spectator * A brilliantly original mix of love-story, memoir and history -- Brian Moore