Raymond Miles & Brian Martin 
The New Recruit [EPUB ebook] 

The New Recruit is a story about a young girl who is devastated when her father leaves the family home. Hurt by the past and unsure of the future, she retreats into her own bruised world, but through the help and understanding of Sharon, her one true friend, Susan slowly begins to heal. She was encouraged by Sharon to make music in the safe and happy environment of other young children, all intent on making their band the very best. The Victory Cadet Marching Band is a newly formed band in a small town, and all those involved are passionate about it and none more so than the bands hardworking owner and teacher, Ross Mills, who sees in Susan a gifted and natural young trumpet player; she is given the chance to suppress the past and look forward to the future with a newfound confidence.
The story is set in the early 1960s, a time when two young girls could walk in safety in the evening without fear and where families could share simple pleasures and vehicles did not clog streets and pavements and in every city, town, village, there was at least one band. The Victory Cadet Marching Band was such a band.

Circa l’autore

Raymond Miles was born in London, England, moving to the South East of England at a young age. He started to learn the trumpet as a young teenager and has had the opportunity to play in brass bands, wind bands, and an orchestra for many years and still continues to play. He taught his daughter to play the trumpet, and when she was about eight, she joined a cadet marching band. Raymond was asked to teach, and the years that followed gave him so much pleasure of seeing young boys and girls opening up their minds to the joy that music can bring, and they were all committed to doing their very best. They all pulled together as a corps and would care for each other; in some cases, forming long-lasting friendships.
It was those special memories that gave him the inspiration to write “The New Recruit, ” and he hopes that reading it gives you as much pleasure he had in writing it.