Myra and the Minesweeper

Part One tells how a young Welsh student of working class origins joins the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant in 1939 and learns the business of minesweeping, how to run a ship, take command of the men he is responsible for, face life and death situations and spit a curve to windward. He also has to cope with his emotional education as he falls under the spell of several very different women. His character develops against a background of hair-raising events and wild romantic encounters, not excluding plenty of good laughs.

Part Two describes how he faces peace time with a new wife, and St Bernard dog, and emigrates in search of the perfect life first in Switzerland, then in Australia and New Zealand.

It is a gripping well crafted yarn hard to put down, all narrated with a lot of humour.