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Waterstones in Hull are extremely supportive of
Hull & East Riding writers, and carry a stock of many of the books mentioned on this site. Dorothea Desforges was born on Hessle Road in Hull, but was evacuated at
the tender age of six to live with relatives in Canada during World War II. Her aunt Vi and uncle Alan went out from
Sproatley in Holderness as some of the early Canadian pioneers and managed to farm the inhospitable land of Saskatchewan
on the prairies. It was there that Dorothea arrived in the summer of 1940 with an abundance of mosquitoes and temperatures
of 30+ degrees. By the age of 8 she was proficient in killing, plucking and gutting chickens and in skinning wolves
for their pelts. The few short years experience in that country later caused her to write her first book '1940-45,
the In-between Years' followed by 'Beyond the Brave' a story of the Canadian pioneers. Returning to Hull after
the war led to jobs in such diverse situations as a greyhound stadium, a telephone exchange, market research and a travel
agency, eventually owning her own Agency and travelling widely.
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