Historical wartime saga of evacuees marks a change of direction and name for Cleland-born author
Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A Cleland author has taken a step back in time to 1940 and wartime Britain for her latest book.Geraldine O’Neill, 65, has already had more than a dozen books published, many of them achieving critical acclaim.Her latest offering – The Nightingales in Mersey Square – written under the pen name Lilly Robbins, fuses fact and fiction and shares an historically accurate story.The book centres on trainee nurses Clare and Gaye, and their new friend Diana and set during World War II as 1200 evacuees moved from the Channel Island of Guernsey to Stockport, near Manchester.“My publishers thought a more generic pen-name would work for this change of genre”, Geraldine said.There