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Paul King Cricketer. Report Post « » Your Name:. Your Email:. Tell us why do you think this post is inappropriate and shouldn't be here:. Cancel Report. Iain Lawrence Biography. Books by this author. More about membership! Interview Iain Lawrence discusses the works of literature that influenced his writing of The Lord of the Nutcracker Men , his thoughts about war, and how school experiences impacted him as a budding writer.

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Our First Impressions reviewers Book Club Discussion. Its closing scene of ghostly soldiers marching off to oblivion made a huge impression on me. I read the book and watched the movie again when I started thinking about Lord of the Nutcracker Men. John Masefield wrote a fabulous book about his experiences in the Great War, and his descriptions of the battlefield inspired some of the passages in the letters of Johnny's dad. I was very moved, not only by the poetry, but by the lives of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

Both were treated for shell shock, and both went back to the war, creating powerful images of its drama and its horror. Sassoon went on to become a devout pacifist, but Owen was killed in the war's last days. As his parents received the telegram announcing his death, the armistice bells were ringing in their village. That Murdoch Sims wrote poetry is a small reflection of Owen and Sassoon. Johnny's intensity and seriousness with his war games was inspired by D.

Lawrence's short story "The Rocking Horse Winner," where a boy believes that riding a toy horse can open doors to the future. I read the story when I was very young and never forgot the boy's obsession, or the story's closing line. I may not have remembered it word for word, but Lord of the Nutcracker Men was shaped by that sentence: "He's better off gone from a world where he has to ride a rocking horse to find a winner.

I had to read it again to see that Lawrence's story was nothing like mine. Did you base any of the characters on real people, or are they all imagined?

None of the characters are based on real people. Johnny's parents are much like mine, but the characters are probably reflections of myself more than of people that I know.

Every one of them includes some little bit of me. Letter writing is an important part of the book. The letters not only bring information, but they keep the emotional ties between Johnny, his father, and his mother. Are you a big letter writer? I am a terrible letter writer. There's a pile of letters on my desk waiting for an answer, and the ones at the bottom are more than two years old.

Johnny's father writes letters so that I can describe the war and the battleground without moving the story out of Kent. In , only the wealthiest people had telephones. There was no radio and no television. All the war news reached England by telegram, letter, and carrier pigeon.

Johnny would have been a grown man at the start of World War II. Did he go to war as his father did to "do his part"? I still think about that now and then.

I can't imagine a grown-up Johnny running off to the recruiting center at the start of World War II, but I'm sure he would have done something for the war effort. He would have seen that war as necessary and noble.

If he had had a little boat, I'm sure he would have gone to Dunkirk to bring the stranded soldiers home. I think he might have joined the Home Guard, or an ambulance or fire crew. Before the war ended in , Johnny might well have had a son of his own who would be old enough to fight.

I often wonder if he would have let his own boy go off to war. He lives in the Gulf Islands with his companion, Kristin, and their dog. He invites you to visit him online at iainlawrence. Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. Iain Lawrence.

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