Columbus Day
An ordinary man living an ordinary life until he loses it all, or so he thinks . . .
Published on 3. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-9989937-0-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a well-paced story of life and hope after loss and despair.
An ordinary man living an ordinary life until he loses it all, or so he thinks. George Morton has lost everything. His wife, Aimee, was killed by a drunk driver.
Deciding there is nothing left for him in England, George buys an old farmhouse in Spain. He meets the attractive Maria, and her not so agreeable papa, Vincente.
He settles down to a new way of life, but not forgetting his lovely Aimee. Someone, however, is not forgetting him. Oliver Barnes of Barnes & Barnes International Bankers, whom George worked for. Oliver is convinced George has the banks money and is determined to retrieve it.
As George becomes closer to Maria, she too wants to start a new chapter in her life, either with or without her father's consent. World Music is paramount in George's life, and he sets about rediscovering these senses once more, and enjoying adventures along the way, which all culminate on Columbus Day
An ordinary man living an ordinary life until he loses it all, or so he thinks. George Morton has lost everything. His wife, Aimee, was killed by a drunk driver.
Deciding there is nothing left for him in England, George buys an old farmhouse in Spain. He meets the attractive Maria, and her not so agreeable papa, Vincente.
He settles down to a new way of life, but not forgetting his lovely Aimee. Someone, however, is not forgetting him. Oliver Barnes of Barnes & Barnes International Bankers, whom George worked for. Oliver is convinced George has the banks money and is determined to retrieve it.
As George becomes closer to Maria, she too wants to start a new chapter in her life, either with or without her father's consent. World Music is paramount in George's life, and he sets about rediscovering these senses once more, and enjoying adventures along the way, which all culminate on Columbus Day
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9989937-0-3 (9781998993703)
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Person
I started writing my first novel, Columbus Day, over ten years ago, with the insane idea of supplementing my pension. I now know that was a pipe-dream, but I have learnt a lot along the way on this rocky road called publishing. It was a few years later I had another idea for a second book, The Letter, a light romantic adventure taking the main characters to Ireland, France, Spain and India.
Some of my travel experiences are peppered in these books and like many authors we draw on our own experiences, and this is something I was only able to achieve in later life. I could never had written these novels in my twenties or thirties.
Nothing Is Sacrosanct was my third novel, which takes on a much darker and dangerous theme than my first two romantic stories. It's a long complicated adventure spanning over five decades of a damaged boy from Austria at the end of the Second World War
No One Is Sacrosanct, although not an official sequel, follows the original investigator and her husband out of retirement to solve what looks like the same MO of the main character in the preceding novel.
Recently I published a children's novel, The Wrong Cheese, (8 - 11) partly for my grandchildren, when they can read for themselves, and partly to see if I could write at a different level. This is published under a pen name of David Morton.
Some of my travel experiences are peppered in these books and like many authors we draw on our own experiences, and this is something I was only able to achieve in later life. I could never had written these novels in my twenties or thirties.
Nothing Is Sacrosanct was my third novel, which takes on a much darker and dangerous theme than my first two romantic stories. It's a long complicated adventure spanning over five decades of a damaged boy from Austria at the end of the Second World War
No One Is Sacrosanct, although not an official sequel, follows the original investigator and her husband out of retirement to solve what looks like the same MO of the main character in the preceding novel.
Recently I published a children's novel, The Wrong Cheese, (8 - 11) partly for my grandchildren, when they can read for themselves, and partly to see if I could write at a different level. This is published under a pen name of David Morton.
Content
Prologue 5
March 7
April 35
May 59
June 77
July 127
August 165
September 191
October 209
March 7
April 35
May 59
June 77
July 127
August 165
September 191
October 209