On a dead December day in 1996, Alice Rossetti Greerson finds something that powerfully links her to Captain Phillip Rossetti, her beloved ancestor. It replaces the perfect love she thought she'd found, and continues a journey that took her from a lost boy in France to a husband who failed her, leading finally to the tragic obsession that changes her life forever. In a story that ranges from the English port of Bristol at the end of its years in the slave trade to the tranquility of the Wye Valley, Alice weaves a tangled web she could never have imagined, and she craves forgiveness for the secret crime she fears she will never be free of.
This is a novel with wide appeal beyond mainstream women's writing, with deep character development and evocative descriptions of Bristol and the Welsh border country, along with a powerful historical element.
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Upriver is a companion volume to The Gentle River, and is the story of the Rossetti and Bennett families, from 1757 to 1996.
A novella-length, in-depth account of the intrigues and turbulent times of Alice Rossetti's ancestors, from their beginnings in Genoa in the north of Italy, through their Bristol years and up to the mid-nineties and the time of Alice's troubles. Upriver expands upon the historical events and the characters from history which form part of the storyline of The Gentle River, in which the writing of this History by Alice's grandfather Peter Matthew Bennett takes place.
Upriver will also stand on its own, and can be read without reference to the novel.
Seven short stories that will take you to different cultures, times and places - from an ancient kingdom to an impossible mystery, from distractions in Venice to the imaginings and needs of people seeking change. Serious tales as well as humour, from a psychopath on a mission to the unsolvable mysteries of a parallel world, from a ruthless king who imagined himself to be immortal to one woman's dash for freedom and another's gentle act of revenge. Seven short stories to intrigue and entertain.
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