A NOVEL based loosely on events that occurred at Prees Heath Common during and after the Second World War has been released.

Postcard from the Common, written by Stephen Lewis, is based around the common's time as an airfield during the Second World War as well as its current role as a nature reserve.

Stephen has been the butterfly conservation’s warden at Prees Heath Common Reserve since it was purchased in 2006 and the reserve currently supports the only surviving colony of Silver-studded Blue butterflies in the Midlands.

In a short summary of the book, Stephen says: "A lowland heathland common is used as an airfield in World War Two. A plane crashes and a series of events begins as, seven years later, two friends, Luke and Alina, try to unravel the truth about what happened.

"As they seek answers they are faced with increasingly urgent questions about the background to their own lives, as well as the need to act as the common itself, its landscape, heritage and wildlife, is threatened with destruction."

The novel is priced at £8.99 and Stephen is donating all royalties from sales to Butterfly Conservation for the continued restoration of Prees Heath Common.

Stephen will be at BookShrop in Green End on the morning of Saturday, November 23 from 11am.