Tom Sharp

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the conflict. Nobody had any idea how long it would last. Marie and John had met the boys? mother, Margaret Sharp?a distant cousin of Marie?just once. What were they getting themselves into? Marie and Joh …

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still wit …