Finding April
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Finding April

When young Ben Hardy becomes a coal miner, his sweetheart, April, cools on him. Determined to make something of himself and win her back, he joins the RAF, later winning a DFC as a Lancaster flight engineer in WW2. He loses April nevertheless, but he never forgets her and will marry no one else. One day, however, he will set out to find her again…

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Ron Burrows

Ron Burrows

Ron Burrows was born in 1943 and grew up in the Vale of Evesham in the heart of England. He spent the first half of his professional life in the Royal Air Force. He was first a fighter pilot, then a flying instructor, and then a fast-jet test pilot testing many Cold War military aircraft including the Harrier ‘jump-jet’ and the supersonic, swing-wing Tornado. In twenty years of test flying, he rose to become the chief test pilot at the UK’s experimental flight test centre at Boscombe Down. After leaving the RAF, he became in turn the principal of a post-graduate flight-test engineering school and the vice-principal of a city further education college. Since retiring from full-time employment in 2003, he has been a magistrate, a hospital director, a charity director in Tanzania, a health-service company chairman, and more recently a published author. ‘Finding April’ is his fourth novel.

It is 1937.

The son of a Northumberland coal miner, young Benjamin Hardy must follow his father underground to earn his keep. But he hates the work and is desperate to do better for himself to win the heart of April, the love of his young life.

When war threatens, Ben grabs the opportunity to join an expanding RAF. He trains as an engine mechanic, then volunteers for aircrew duties and distinguishes himself flying the Avro Manchesters and Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command.

Ben’s wartime bravery might win April’s admiration, but he loses her, nevertheless. Alone, he moves south and builds a successful professional life testing the RAF’s new aircraft at a secret experimental airbase.
But he never marries and the flame he carries for April never dies. Years later, facing a lonely retirement, he decides that he must see her again. He cannot know if she is free or feels about him as he still does for her, but he owes it to himself to find out…