Ketherstone Ridge - Softcover

Serjeant, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1492374393 ISBN 13: 9781492374398

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

An unusual genre: Ketherstone Ridge is an historical novel that is interwoven with a central musical thread.
Set mostly in Victorian England, it follows the lives of a widower and his young daughter who escape disease-ridden London and settle in a Cotswold village.
Their lives are punctuated with both joy and tragedy. Their story is one of conflict and concord, humour and hubris, trial and triumph: an observation of the human spirit when vastly different social and economic strata meet head-on.
The musical thread serves to bind and to enrich lives - across generations and across socio-economic barriers.

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About the Author

Lifetime spent (or maybe squandered) in IT, from the mighty old mainframes to current technologies, in the course of which I helped construct some towering edifices: Cathedrals of software… that have vanished like so many houses of straw. Yes, computer applications have a remarkably short lifespan - before collapsing under the relentless advance of new technologies. So at the end of this career (which I did enjoy) there is nothing that I can show my kids and proudly say to them "I built that". The good news is that I was blessed with being born into a world that enjoys the riches of the most wonderful communication medium that humankind has ever devised - the English Language. There are nouns by the bucketful and verbs to breathe life into them, there are adjectives for every occasion to colour our world and there are adverbs to flavour it; there are pronouns and articles for decoration, conjunctions and prepositions for mortar and interjections for portals. What amazing and durable building materials! Our birthright includes also, vast libraries in which wordsmiths have left us their legacies to explore, and we can all strive to contribute to this treasure in some small way. http://www.ketherstone.net

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492374393
• ISBN 13: 9781492374398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 388