owl: Nicola Marlow (nicola)
only a sinner saved by grace ([personal profile] owl) wrote in [community profile] trennels 2005-04-08 09:17 pm (UTC)

Perhaps in the 1940s absent naval fathers were taken more as a matter of course, and as the young Marlows spend most of the year at school they wouldn't see their father that much if he were at home. It's arguably better than being an Army brat being uprooted all the time.

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