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Forever Orange: A True Welsh Love Story

by Johanna Francis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781800991460
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Y Lolfa
  • Publisher Imprint: Y Lolfa
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 160
  • Original Price: GBP 9.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Women, Historical, and Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General

Johanna Francis (née Dooyeweerd) was born in Amsterdam in 1936 to an extremely well-to-do family, daughter of one of the most famous philosophers of all time. She watched the German tanks roll in as the Nazis took Holland and the family was active in the resistance to the occupation throughout the war, sheltering a Jewish family and running an underground newspaper which Johanna hid in her underwear - even though the Gestapo headquarters were just across the street. They went through the privations of Hunger Winter when they had to eat tulips, and the Gestapo interrogated her father four times.

Coming to the UK in her late teens after the war, she met a penniless Welsh farmer and within two days, they decided to get married. They had a huge society wedding in Amsterdam, but her new husband Bob was so poor that on their first night together on the Welsh farm, in a freezing tumbledown house, she cut up her wedding dress to make curtains. Despite their financial difficulties, they only grew closer and more inseparable as the decades passed, and the story of their life together is a beautiful love story. Johanna died in 2021, after a singularly devoted and extraordinary relationship.

Francis, Alan: - Alan Francis is the former head of the Design Council for Wales and the son of Johanna Francis.

Francis, Johanna: - Johanna Francis (née Dooyeweerd) was born in Amsterdam in 1936 to an extremely well-to-do family, daughter of one of the most famous philosophers of all time. She survived Nazi occupation in World War II and went on to marry a penniless Welsh farmer in an incredible love match that lasted for the rest of their lives. She died in 2021 at her farm in Wales, after a singularly devoted and extraordinary relationship.

Jones, Stephen: - Stephen Jones is a multi award-winning The Sunday Times rugby correspondent and world-renowned rugby expert. He is the author of several books on the sport, including Endless Winter: Inside Story of the Rugby Revolution which won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Nick Cain is a rugby columnist for The Sunday Times and chief writer for The Rugby Paper. He edited Rugby World magazine for nine years, and is the co-author of The Lions Diary with Jeremy Guscott and Rugby Union for Dummies.

Powell, Jantien: - Jantien Powell is a published author/illustrator, and daughter of Johanna Francis.

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