Böcker av Margaret Turner

The modern summer holiday was born on the Cote d'Azur, in the 1930s, more precisely at Juan les Pins. This is where sunbathing and waterskiing were invented, where beach, sea and sun came together to create the archetypal Mediterranean vacation.To grow up as an English girl - at home in two cultures - in the centre of this beautiful and extraordinary place, at such a dramatic time, made for a fascinating and unusual childhood.Shattered suddenly by evacuation in 1940 - on the last boat to England - to work as a nurse in the London Hospital in Whitechapel during the war. Then a return to France, and the British Embassy in Paris, with all the privations, challenges and opportunities of the post-war years.This autobiography takes us from 1928 to 1950, from the age of six to the age of 28. At times a gentle description of a vanished way of life; at others a chronicle of a rich family life; with some moments of intense drama, and others of lyrical description.

Travel with Richard who flies all over the United States when he goes to sleep at night. During his waking hours, he places himself in danger as he struggles to keep up with his extraordinary dreams. Richard had always been just a regular kid who did regular kid stuff like going to school and church and playing baseball. He hung out with his friends, rode his bike, and ate pizza and ice cream. His life changes abruptly when he begins to fly in his dreams, and he can see things that are happening in real time but in far-away places. When he wakes up in the morning, he knows he has to do something about the potential tragedies he has found out about while he was dreaming. He desperately tries to convince others to help him save lives. But who is going to believe a boy who says he has dreamed it all? Even Richard does not understand his special powers.He learns about the kidnapping of a little girl, and he scrambles to enlist help to rescue her. Richard saves the day when he dreams about the San Diego Zoo, the Ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, and a visit to Washington, D.C. by a Russian dissident