The Caretaker: Bishop's Stortford author Chrissy Smith recreates horrors of the Holocaust for second novel A fleeting encounter with a Holocaust survivor inspired Bishop's Stortford author Chrissy Smith's second novel. The married mother of three spent two-and-a-half years researching and writing The Caretaker, with an unlikely hero at its heart. Like her first book, The Pilgrim’s Rest , it contains autobiographical details and is set in the St Albans of her youth. She said: "My novels are both based in mid-1970s St Albans as that was the time and place where I grew up. I had the best youth ever...