Fred, Albert’s younger brother, is referred to briefly in Barefoot on the Cobbles. In reality, he was Alfred, known as Alf but I felt that this was too similar to Albert, so I opted for the alternative abbreviation. Like Albert, Alfred moved from his Bucks Mills birthplace to Clovelly. He married there and had two children. He was an active lifeboatman and was coxswain for a number of years.

 ‘Albert and Fred, uneasy in their Sunday clothes, would be fidgeting restlessly, aware that there were nets to mend or pots to make but knowing that these were not tasks for the Sabbath.’

Barefoot on the Cobbles will be published on 17 November 2018. More information about the novel can be found here. Copies will be available at various events in the weeks following the launch or can be pre-ordered from Blue Poppy Publishing or the author.