Patrick Hopton: 5 books

(The first book of Patrick Hopton’s ‘Echoes’ Trilogy) The diary of a young woman, written in the period before and during the First World War, reaches out to touch and transform the empty life of Stephen Cantrell three quarters of a century later. Bernice Lamb, a spirited sixteen year old when...

A selection of 37 short stories on a wide variety of subjects, all originating from tasks set by Wells U3A Writing Group. Humour, pathos, intrigue, romance, and much more...

It is July 1948 and the annual staff outing of Selworthy & Harman is taking place, this year to Melsea Regis. Widely differing experiences lie in wait for the participants: romance; fear; frustration; crime; the fish catch of a lifetime; and, for one unlikely aspirant, the first step on the road...

An old lady sits on the terrace of her Mediterranean villa recounting the story of her life and loves to two rapt listeners – her grandson and his lover. It is a life built on fraud and deception; her listeners know this yet they love her in spite of it. The dramatic events that comprise her tale...

The First World War diary kept in her late teens by Bernice Lamb brings Meg and Stephen together three-quarters of a century later and helps forge the bond of love between them. They feel that the answer to a long-buried secret lies hidden somewhere in those yellowed pages and they are determined...