Mike Hayes, author and co-author of over fifty articles of a factual nature in professional and related publications, dips his toe into fiction. He has used a flimsy scaffold of historical fact and theory to craft a trilogy spanning the reigns of five monarchs, three wars and seven decades. Always intended as a trilogy, each part is a whole and for those who wish it, a 'stand-alone'.
'Who to blame'? traces the lives and fates of two young individuals from the less privileged tiers of society. Both have ambition but only one is prepared to strive to achieve a different life. The other believes 'time' will deliver. Their meeting is by chance, their boundaries tight, their dependence so controlling. Set in the late Edwardian era and very early stages of the Great War their outcomes are similar. It is the route that differs so.