![]() ![]() She accepted, and as the months went by their relationship intensified. Back in the Army, Hugh had been appointed Commandant of a school for Home Guard officers, and feeling Ida should be out of London he offered her a post as civilian secretary. Jobs in Harley Street and Wimpole Street were followed by a stint at the Law Society, and as World War II broke out she stayed on, working through the Blitz, until a chance encounter with Hugh Pollock turned her life round again. ![]() Travelling alone to Morocco, she glimpsed the desert and the Atlas mountains before returning home, cured, to embark upon a secretarial course. As a result, she met a variety of interesting figures, among them Major Hugh Pollock, then Book Editor at George Newnes, but ambition and other factors were driving her to the edge of a breakdown. At the age of 10 she knew that she wanted to be a writer, and within a few years some of her stories were in major magazines. ![]() Author biography: Ida Pollock was born near London in the spring of 1908. ![]()
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