Jean Hendy-Harris

Two for Joy Jean Hendy-Harris

A mixture of memories reaching back into the lives of those who grew up in industrial North Kent in the nineteen forties and fifties. Whether you were there or not some of the characters emerging will be comfortably familiar should you have a connection to the time or the area. In these particular glimpses of Thames-side life Old Nan still dominates as far as she is able and the Aunts still mostly do as they are told. Jean continues to daydream about a dazzling future and remains largely at odds with her dysfunctional family whilst her little brother, Bernard, plods resolutely forward always reliably enthused and inspired by the wonderful world of birds. Unsurprisingly the feathered friends that fill his head are almost always to be observed along the edges of life from parrots and pigeons to ravens and rooks.