Welcome to Day 1 of the “WHILE THE BOMBS FELL” Blog Tour! @bakeandwrite @4WillsPub #RRBC

I am over at The Showers of Blessings blog this morning with the first post in my While the Bombs Fell book tour. This post is about how my mother and I chose the title of this book. Miriam has a lovely blog and shares beautiful photographs and poetry. Do go over and have a look around.

The Showers of Blessings

Welcome to Day 1 of the “WHILE THE BOMBS FELL” Blog Tour! @bakeandwrite @4WillsPub #RRBC

Whie the Bombs Fell

While the Bombs Fell

How we decided on the title

While the Bombs Fell is a collaboration between my mother, Elsie Hancy Eaton, and me and tells a fictionalized account of her life as a small girl growing up in the small English town of Bungay, Suffolk during World War II.

Deciding on a title for a book is never easy and we bandied around several ideas before coming up with “While the bombs fell.” Although this book is not violent and focuses more on how families carried on with their everyday lives, despite the on-going war, this title seemed appropriate as everything and everyone was touched by the bombing and the war across the channel and in the oceans and skies.

People became so accustomed to listening for the sound of the bomber planes and the…

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Robbie and Michael Cheadle are co-authors of the Sir Chocolate series of books. We both like to write and bake.

36 thoughts on “Welcome to Day 1 of the “WHILE THE BOMBS FELL” Blog Tour! @bakeandwrite @4WillsPub #RRBC”

  6. Robbie the book sounds awesome and I will download the book from Amazon. Would love to read what everyone went through when the bombs were falling and yes the world did not end but everyone had to work to make ends meet and your mother and every other persons anxiety when the bombs fell. Congratulations.

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  11. I love the insight into the title. Between the title and the cover image, you get the clear idea this is as much memoir as history. Excellent.

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