Clipped Wings Book by Percy F. Westerman

Hardcover

Percy Francis Westerman (1876 22 February 1959

His writing career allegedly began with a sixpence bet made with his wife that he could write a better story than the one he was reading to his son, who was at the time ill with chickenpox.

His first book for boys, A Lad of Grit, was published by Blackie and Son Limited in 1908. In the same year, Baden-Powell founded the Scouting movement, which strongly influenced many of Westerman's books he was a particularly keen supporter of the Sea Scouts.

At the start of this novel for young readers Sub-lieutenant Peter Corbold, of the Royal Navy, is returning to his home town of Portsmouth aboard the Baffin. The crew are about to go on a spell of leave, but in this post-war era, some of the men have been made redundant and Peter is one of them, with not much idea of may lie ahead for him.