Posted by Owen Roberts on August 01, 2006 at 11:13:36 from 194.201.78.141 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: What the future held posted by Rob Marshall on August 01, 2006 at 00:10:33:
Rob, I remember reading somewhere that AR was told by his publishers not to mention the war.
However we are not under any such restrictions :-
As Nancy was good at French (ML), maybe she was parachuted into France as a secret agent. She may not have survived the war.
Peggy would have joined the WRAC and as she did not like loud noises (thunder) would have been posted to a gun battery in the South East of England in true Army style.
John would have gone into the RN followed by Roger towards the end of the war, both having gone through Dartmouth. In can't remember which of the books mentions that they were both going into the RN ?SA. Possibly one or both may have been wounded or killed.
Susan may well have become a WREN or else married, although the real Susan model did become interned and later escaped in France.
Titty may have become a zookeeper in the parrot house, providing there were no French parrots there as refugees.
Dot may well have written short stories for a ladies magazine to keep up morale on the home front.
Dick, if was clever enough, may have ended up at Bletchley Park working as an Enigma decoder. This work required considerable concentration.
However speculation on the future of the characters, taking into account traits exhibited in the books, does exercise the brain although one might well arrive at totally the wrong conclusion.