My mother, Joyce Hastings, who has died aged 98, lived in three different countries, each with its own culure, and thrived thanks to her Christian faith.
She was born in Norwich, Norfolk, one of eight children of Gilbert Holman, a clerk, and his wife Stella (nee Rous). She attended Blyth school (now Sewell Park academy) in the city before training to be a nurse at Ipswich hospital, Suffolk, serving there during the second world war.
