new book completes trilogy
Oxfordshire is the setting for much of my trilogy on what war does to people, and especially succeeding generations. Western Australia also features, but above all war-torn Bosnia. In the earlier books (Another Kind of loving, 2005 and Beyond the Broken Gate, 2007) waif-like Jasminka from besieged Sarajevo is fostered by Mike and Sara Hennessey in a village in north Oxfordshire. She grows into an English schoolgirl and teenager, falls in love with a young American, returns to Sarajevo with him at the time of 9/11. She also becomes the daughter Mike has always wanted and cannot have. In this third book, Long Shadows (publication date 6th March 2010*), he has to face his true feelings for his foster daughter, now an attractive young woman and single mum, as dark shadows from his youth in the Sixties began to threaten. And Jasminka must face her true feelings for Mike as she is drawn back to Sarajevo to try and build reconciliation in the wounded city of her birth.
Book One, Another Kind of Loving: “… this hooked me, reeled me in and wouldn’t let go until … the last page” review blog, The Bookbag.co.uk
Book Two, Beyond the Broken Gate: Winner of self-published fiction award 2008. “… powerful, far-reaching…” Four Shires magazine
* Long Shadows will be launched at the King’s Sutton Literary Festival, March 6-7, 2010. If anyone is in the area at the time, it would be great to see you.