Blogs in November 2017

Greek Letters, Volume Four: Much More Than Hurt 23rd November 2017

Following the many paths of their ancestors, especially Samuel the Philhellene who came to the Peloponnese as Greece declared its independence in 1827 and whose son was born in Greece thereby creating five generations drawn back to the land...

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Greek Letters, Volume Four: Much More Than Hurt 12th June 2016

Rosalind, whose life has never been easy, seems to tap into a rich seam of luck when she finds papers relating to her ancestor Samuel Carr and links to her former lovers, yet perhaps even at the end she...

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GREEK LETTERS Vol 3 THE EYES HAVE IT 11th June 2016

Samuel Carr’s great grandchild is born on a windy night March 1906. The first part of the story is her heartwarming tale of growing up in a newly built semi-detached house in Timperley Cheshire, of her early Edwardian childhood...

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Greek Letters Volume 2 and After 7th June 2016

Samuel, now a father, and accompanied by his servants, Cuthbert his Anglo/Irish man-servant and the four young Greeks whom he has taken under his wing, arrives in Nauplia (Nafplio in the Peloponnese) in 1829, just as this small city...

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The Glass Class 6th June 2016

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

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