As you must have seen for yourself, Norman Friedman's British Carrier Aviation: The Evolution of the Ships and their Aircraft is an excellent, authoritative work, written in the 1980's. I notice that you also queried David Hobbs's good book British Aircraft Carriers here back in July 2023. You must be interested in this subject, like I am, and others. Nobody has seen Dr Friedman's forthcoming book The British Aircraft Carrier: In Two World Wars (which I understand will be the first volume of two) yet, so I can't recommend it or describe it to you. But I can truly say that such is my esteem for Dr Friedman's work, this book will be an automatic purchase for me as soon as it's published later this year. I have no doubts.