Our Perfect Place

The story begins when David Ashby comes home on a weekend pass, he is a Captain in the Army. He finds his home bombed and his two children in the care of an ARP Warden at the side of the road. Shirley, his wife, arrives. She had been to meet the children from school due to the air raid. David takes his family to his parents’ farm in Dorset. The story is both happy and sad but they love their life in the village, a perfect place.

Megan Stuart was born near Administer Devon but spent most of her life in the Midlands. She moved to Cornwall in 1990. Megan met Bob and married in 1997. They now live in Lelant, retired with Missy Mop, their Shih Tzu. Megan enjoys music, all aspects of history, films, travel and working in the garden, landscaping in particular, and also enjoys reading.