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Apr.22.2010
                      Following last Thursday's post. an excerpt from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-...
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Apr.16.2010
                     William Orpen Self-portrait 1917     Following Tuesday's post, an excerpt from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the...
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Feb.05.2010
                           continued from yesterday...    It turned out that Sibyl had left no instructions regarding her funeral. In the grasp of creeping apprehension, Bel stared at Mr Adrian Goodfellow’s sausage...
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Feb.04.2010
              ...from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain.   It was twenty past ten in the morning when Bel...
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Nov.10.2009
              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...
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Sep.26.2009
                  Further excerpt from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, as yet unedited and unrevised. (Dysfunctional family struggles in the aftermath of two world wars in pre-millennium Britain.)   Max sat alone in his limed oak kitchen...
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Sep.15.2009
              Random excerpt from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, as yet unedited and unrevised.   Godfrey hadn't introduced his mother to Annabel until after the fait accompli. She had spent Christmas as a guest at the house party of some landed...
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Aug.01.2009
 An excerpt from my Marion Grace novel THE GODMOTHER, as yet unrevised and unedited.       When the new Editor of The Ashminster Post invited Bel to his office for a chat, things took a bizarre twist. He was motivated, imposing, and twenty years her senior. There was a peculiar...
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Jul.26.2009
An excerpt from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, as yet unrevised and unedited. Dysfunctional family wrestles with the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain under its dour but charismatic oracle,Sibyl.     Sibyl had been twenty-seven when she met Edwin at a...