Vectis Days

"Maria I placed her name in the shoebox, together with a thousand other memories, with a thousand postcards and kisses..."

Memories are never easy. They fade and curl like old photographs in sunlight or trap you in whirlpools of sudden remembrances. The echoes of bitter days and stormy nights, of trials and travails of family and ill health, of loves found and loves lost.

For Gus, childhood on the Isle of Wight had never been easy either. There were days when the sun shone and the sea was a warm and welcoming azure, yet the harrowing spectre of a home life with his mother was forever present.

And so he made the island his home.

With his gang of friends, it was theirs to roam, to explore and enjoy, and a sanctuary where adventure was often literally a stone's throw away.

Gus Jonnson is one of the Isle of Wight's most sensitive and descriptive storytellers.

Vectis Days is his second volume of memoirs about growing up on the island in the 1950s.

Like his first, Vectis Voices, it is a 'must read' for islanders and everyone who appreciates poetry and prose.

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