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Something Momentous
World War II Fictional Memoir - Mostly Set In Suffolk - Looking Back From 2023.
The sound began as a whirring noise and at first, she thought it was related to her game, but it grew into an unearthly wail that dipped and rose in a crescendo that assaulted her eardrums as a physical pain. The jam jar slipped from her fingers and smashed on the crazy paving, and she hurtled back to the house, sobbing in fright.
It is September 1939, and five-year-old Lorna Brown is in her grandmother’s house in Ipswich. Her father
‘The war has started, and German aeroplanes will be flying over to drop bombs on us. When they get near the siren will sound so that we will know that they are on their way and can take shelter.’
Lorna is offered an extra slice of cake.
As Lorna was only ever allowed one piece of cake, which she had already had before her sortie into the garden, she knew something momentous was up and hurriedly helped herself to another slice before her grandmother changed her mind.
Lorna wasn’t prepared for how momentous life would be over the next five years and certainly not that it would be eighty years before she got some form of closure on one particular event.
The author was also five in 1939 and Something Momentous is inspired by some of her own experiences and those of her friends and family during World War II in and around Ipswich, featuring air raids, evacuees, refugees, the advent of American Bases in Suffolk as well as a mystery death.
In the summer of 1951 Lorna/Ann visited the Festival of Britain and saw something else momentous - the country’s future laid out in front of them.
Ann Quinton is a long-term resident of the small village of Kirton in Suffolk and is well known locally as a musician, artist and crime writer.
The sound began as a whirring noise and at first, she thought it was related to her game, but it grew into an unearthly wail that dipped and rose in a crescendo that assaulted her eardrums as a physical pain. The jam jar slipped from her fingers and smashed on the crazy paving, and she hurtled back to the house, sobbing in fright.
It is September 1939, and five-year-old Lorna Brown is in her grandmother’s house in Ipswich. Her father
‘The war has started, and German aeroplanes will be flying over to drop bombs on us. When they get near the siren will sound so that we will know that they are on their way and can take shelter.’
Lorna is offered an extra slice of cake.
As Lorna was only ever allowed one piece of cake, which she had already had before her sortie into the garden, she knew something momentous was up and hurriedly helped herself to another slice before her grandmother changed her mind.
Lorna wasn’t prepared for how momentous life would be over the next five years and certainly not that it would be eighty years before she got some form of closure on one particular event.
The author was also five in 1939 and Something Momentous is inspired by some of her own experiences and those of her friends and family during World War II in and around Ipswich, featuring air raids, evacuees, refugees, the advent of American Bases in Suffolk as well as a mystery death.
In the summer of 1951 Lorna/Ann visited the Festival of Britain and saw something else momentous - the country’s future laid out in front of them.
Ann Quinton is a long-term resident of the small village of Kirton in Suffolk and is well known locally as a musician, artist and crime writer.
375 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 2, 2025
About the author
Ann Quinton
13 books1 followerAnn Quinton is married and lives with her husband and collection of Siamese cats in a small Suffolk village near the coast. She has three children, two sons and a daughter. Before leaving to start her family, she worked in the library service, both in a county library and in a scientific research station, where she met her husband. As well as being a writer Ann is also a well-known local artist, working mainly in pastels, exhibiting regularly. She is also very interested in music, both as a listener and performer, and has worked professionally as a pianist and accompanist.
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