By trish.lee@newburynews.co.uk (Trish Lee) Among the local authors recently promoting their work at Newbury library was Derek Ansell, known for his N2 jazz reviews, whose novel Elsie Sees it Through was hot off the press. This is his seventh published work, including jazz biographies. The book took him about five months to write, “although,” he says, “the research started much earlier”. The plot begins in London, 1943. The War in Europe is raging. After Elsie bumps into a young soldier, they are attracted to each other and in time, become close friends. Elsie lives with her widowed mother in a…
