Sky-Blue Sailor
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About the Book
Sky-Blue Sailor is a fictional story of a young, newly-wed merchant seaman who is called up in the 1950s for two years' compulsory service in H.M.'s Forces.
The reader is taken through the protagonist's heartbreak of separation from his new bride and the harsh, humiliating basic training where he encounters the perverse military practice of asking the conscripted man his career preference only to give him the exact opposite.
After initial training, his time away and his travels around the coast place a heavy strain on his marriage, and both he and his lonely wife (who has her own problems) succumb to temptation.
About the Author
Bill Hawkins was born in Portsmouth and went to sea at the age of fourteen and left eight years later as Second Officer. After two years National Service in the Royal Air Force, he served in the Royal Marines Special Boat Squadron (S.B.S.) and the civil police, followed by a career in Health and Safety management during which time he spent twelve years as Senior Helmsman of an RNLI Lifeboat.
This is his second book.