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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author would like to thank the following people who offered information, advice and support during the writing of CAULDSTANE:
Lyn Baines,
Clare Cooper, Gregor Duthie, Amanda Fairclough, Margaret Gillard, Amy Glover, Philip Glover, Roz Morris, Jonathan Salmond and Rachel Thomson.
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Orphaned by drink, drugs and rock’n’roll, Gwen Rowland is invited to spend Christmas at her boyfriend Alfie's family home, Creake Hall – a ramshackle Tudor manor in Norfolk. Soon after she arrives, Gwen senses something isn't quite right. Alfie acts strangely towards his family and is reluctant to talk about the past. His mother, a celebrated children's author, keeps to her room, living in a twilight world, unable to distinguish between past and present, fact and fiction.
When Gwen discovers fragments of forgotten family letters sewn into an old patchwork quilt, she starts to piece together the jigsaw of the past and realises there's more to the family history than she's been told. It seems there are things people don’t want her to know. And one of those people is Alfie…
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and
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, the UK’s first environmental book award.
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Keir makes no concession to her condition. He’s abrupt to the point of rudeness, yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to “show her the stars”?...
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“There has been much love in this family – some would say too much – and not a little hate. If you asked my sister-in-law, Grace why she hated me, she’d say it was because I seduced her precious firstborn, then tossed him on to the sizeable scrap heap marked ‘Flora’s ex-lovers’. But she’d be lying. That isn’t why Grace hated me. Ask my brother Rory.”
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THE GLASS GUARDIAN
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