When I am an old woman, I shall wear wine-dark velvet in a retrospective style, with plumed hat, tilted at a rakish angle and toss off a brandy in one go. And quaff champagne because the sun is shining, or the rain won't go away, or because a deadline has taken wing for distant climes. I shall ...
Taken from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, fully written but awaiting editorial attention. Dysfunctional family wrestles in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain. Jessica lived on the shadowy side of Bethesda. She was still considered a newcomer, having arrived not long before Christmas when all the rooms on the sunny side ...
One thing that is surprising,” Adam remarked as we drove back over the moors after tea, “at least many people find it so when they begin to investigate the geology of Scotland….”“What’s that?”“That it’s a land rich in gold.”I smiled through my weariness. The words had a familiar ring! “I’ve heard tell of ghillies who ...
The night sky sparkles with false stars dying at the peak of purest brilliance and sizzling, whining blasts of sound celebrate broken bondage to the past. St Peter is defied to tread our soil in Roman sandals. The joy of it! To maim one's heritage in tinsel Absolution! To scorn the screeching shackles that once bound chafing earth to Heaven; the ...
The Honourable Leo Quinn settled back against the shabby upholstery of the hackney cab and made a vain bid to suppress a yawn. Stuffing, he noticed, was bursting from a gash in the leather. Propriety obliged him to make use of such anonymous means of transport when escorting Essie and her kind, though he might not disdain to be seen with her in ...
The Berkeley Trilogy is novelised biography, the story of Mary Cole, 5th Countess of Berkeley. In June, when Susan came down from Town for her niece’s christening, accompanied by James Perry, things took a bizarre turn. The long and the short of it was that he and Mary fell in love.When he arrived, soberly apparelled beside Susan in pink ...
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