"The ordinary soldier has a surprisingly good nose for what is real and what is false" Rommel

Service offers an accumulative portrait of one such ordinary soldier, father, butcher and fish and chip shop owner, whose stories enthralled his children. Marion Husband's writing teases out the complexities of daughter - father relationships and creates an authentic picture of one of Teesside's ordinary heroes.

Marion Husband lives in Stockton on Tees. She has published short stories through Mudfog and Diamond Twig and has recently completed an M.A. in Creative Writing at The University of Northumbria.