Thomas, Leslie John
Thomas was a Barnardo boy for three years after he was orphaned aged 12, but he was never adopted. (His father, a merchant seaman, was killed in World War II U-boat attack on a shipping convoy, and his mother died six months later.)
His books include Stand Up Virgin Soldiers, This Time Next Week, Arrivals and Departures and Tropic of Ruislip.
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References
"Kindred Spirits," Telegraph Magazine [London], 10 April 1993, p. 10Who's Who, 1997
Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, edited by Meic Stephens. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
Thomas, Leslie. This Time Next Week. (London: Penguin, 1991)
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