Book Review

Children of parents in the Forces can struggle with understanding why they need to go away for so long. A new book, Life In A Blue Suit, helps to gently explain things.

Perhaps one of the greater, if largely unspoken challenges of life in the Forces, is the separation of parents from children – particularly so for Royal Navy families.

Naturally, back home, little ones can wonder where their parent is and why they need to go away for so long. This was all the inspiration Andrew Terry needed to write and illustrate ‘Life In A Blue Suit’.

This short picture book runs through various aspects of Navy life aboard ship to explain in simple child-friendly terms just what absent parents are doing, as well as some of the people they work with, from the stoker and chippy, right up to the skipper. They’ll even learn a bit of Naval Jackspeak along the way.

Behind all of this is the overriding message that despite the distance, the children of Navy personnel are always in your thoughts and more importantly, in your heart. This short book does much to explain this in a gentle and entertaining way. 

It’s the ideal bedtime story for any child with a parent in the Forces. 

“Life In A Blue Suit” By Andrew Terry, Amazon, ISBN: 979880371507890000