Two hundred years of love, adventure and loss, set in the wild hills of Yorkshire, the vast open moorlands of Dartmoor and around a not so innocent Cornish fishing village.
The purpose of this website is to publish the trilogy's prologue 'LUCK'. This gives a little background for some of the main characters.
Cold sleepless nights in the darkness of short winter days gave me the time to write my first short story. Inspiration came after visiting an exhibition of intricate handmade lace at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
Thanks to my touch typing skills, (an old fashioned, residual talent from when I worked as office junior more decades ago than I like to admit to), I don’t need to have my eyes open or have a light on to be able to use my trusty blue tooth keyboard and a mobile phone app to pin ideas down while snuggled up in my warm bed at night. I typed discreetly on the train, watching TV and sitting out in the garden. Whenever a bit more of the story pinged into my head, I simply let my fingers type it up.
Turning to my computer, I read for the first time what I had written, and it didn't take long to catch the writing bug. When the story grew too long to be called a short story, I was delighted when it grew into a full novel. This first novel kept growing till it reached epic proportions and had to be rewritten as two, and then three books.
These three books became my Lace Map Trilogy, of 'Lace', 'Lizard', and 'Legacy'.
What to do when they were finished? I enjoy the extensive research, not so much the rewrites and editing, but still felt there was more tale to be told.
The prologue 'Luck' , set at the Barbican quays of Plymouth some years earlier. The sequel'Leisure' covers the war years in the tiny Cornish fishing village of Coverack. This book was inspired by my mother's memories of the Second World War, which she has only recently been able to talk about after many years of keeping the nightmares to herself.
The prologue 'Luck' , is set at the Barbican quay area of Plymouth some years earlier. I released 'Luck' first as a free novella. My way of putting something back into the written world of adventure and escape.