Home Fires

Home Fires

 "Elaine Cheyney dodged Nazis, was courted by a prince, and raised two kids often as a single mom through a parade of careers in several states.

In Home Fires: A Memoir, she shares that fascination over two continents in a captivating tale. She, her mother, sister and brother shuttled along the British coast to avoid the Nazi blitzkrieg. That launched her childhood, and lifetime of adventures in England and the U.S. 

A superior story teller, Cheyney is a model for aspiring memoirists. "

- CHRIS OLERT is a writer, former newspaperman and publicist. He has worked for the Associated Press, two daily newspapers, and was a spokesman for Con Edison.

 "Life is an intricate journey. Elaine Cheyney's memoir weaves a beautiful and tragic view of the life of a young Jewish child in the city of London during World War ll. Her life follows a path of incredible twists and turns with her unique world view. Elaine's dynamic journey of truths, love, disaster and passion will keep you turning the pages in amazement. 

A story so impossible to envision rooted in the zeitgeist of its tumultuous time, but so universal a tale of the dangerous and sometimes soothing seas of the experience of being a woman. The love, the loss, the danger, the discovery, the ravages, the remembrances. The tide of how this world becomes wiser and more foolish in its current of events." 

- ROBIN DILLER TORRES, MA, LMHC is an author, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Student Engagement ' Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology ' Comminacation at Marist College.

From her earliest memory of attending the coronation parade of King George VI in London in 1937, surviving the German Blitzkrieg of the United Kingdom during World War II, an engagement to marry a Malayan prince who attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and her eventual marriage to a United States serviceman which transported her to Missouri and, eventually, New York, Elaine Cheyney endured anti-Semitism, political bias, heartbreak.

At 89 years of age and having reaped a lifetime of wisdom and experience, Elaine Cheyney shares her incredible journey in Home Fires: A Memoir.