J. P. Francis

J. P. Francis is the author of The Major’s Daughter, a historical novel set in New Hampshire during the closing years of the Second World War. The story begins in April 1944, when German prisoners arrive at Camp Stark under the command of Major John Brennan. His daughter Collie serves as a translator, bringing her into contact with prisoner August Wahrlich and placing private feeling against family duty and wartime loyalty. Publisher and library descriptions classify the work as historical fiction, while reviews note its attention to the period’s atmosphere and the moral uncertainty created by confinement far from the European front. Francis builds the narrative around an unusual American home-front setting rather than a battlefield, using Collie’s position between languages to make communication central to the plot. The Major’s Daughter is Francis’s principal published novel and a focused study of allegiance, intimacy, and consequence within a documented but less familiar aspect of wartime New England.