Bøker av Neale Edwards

Michael, Louise's son, after Eton goes up to Trinity Cambridge. Life in the sixties was about fun and work. His time at University is peppered with an active social life in Cambridge and London. After working in his grandfather's business in Norfolk, Michael goes into the City, joining the Merchant Bank of which his father had been a Director. He dutifully serves his apprenticeship, and as soon as he decently can, branches out on his own, leads a life of hard business and dedicated pleasure in Norfolk and London. By way of girlfriends of differing kinds, he goes to work in New York in Corporate Finance, where he finds a wife. Family life is complicated but full of excitement and the couple eventually enjoy total changes in their lives amongst their numerous and diverse families.

A working class boy of fifteen in Macclesfield excels at mathematics, develops into an IT expert and becomes a designer of complex algorithms for sophisticated search engines. A genius, he is introduced to senior players in that field who help him to realise his full potential both professionally and personally. But will material success mean everything to him or are other things in the world more important?

The story of a decent honest middle-class German family of three from the suburbs of Munich. They seek a chance to create a future away from their storm-tossed homeland in the nineteen-thirties. The family move to threatened and war-torn Britain in search of a new life. They experience various struggles and endeavour to make the most of their hard-won opportunities, and their new friendships and acquaintanceships in a strange land and in a noble cause. Underlying the adventure is the life of a strong and determined young woman of great courage and resource, determined to do her bit for the country she has come to appreciate and love. The story is a kaleidoscope of hopes.

Louise Halliday, Guy's daughter, joins Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps in 1945, still a teenager. She is posted to a Field Hospital on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany, where she encounters victims of total war and is determined to become useful in the field of mental care. She witnesses how vast tracts of that country are ruined, as was Virgil's Troy. After disturbing and daunting experiences, she returns to Norfolk and marries. She pursues a career in Medicine at Bart's and Cambridge on treatment of stress, to which she had been exposed in Germany. Louise and her banker husband live a full and rich life in their large country house estate, and have a son, Michael. However, events conspire to divert her life and she establishes herself in a new career close to her heart.

Captain Guy Halliday, Old Etonian, is a Cavalry Officer in the Royal Wessex Dragoon Guards, who sees action at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Brought up in idyllic rural Somerset by formidable parents, Guy, like Shakespeare's Romeo, looks forward to a blissful life with Giselle, the lovely lady who is later to become his wife. However, different and unexpected turns force him to change tack. His life ultimately centres on his three children, wife, and his business in remote Norfolk. He is aware of the mounting danger presented by the rise of Hitler in Germany, and the threat posed by events in Imperial Japan. A Private Pilot, his life is adventurous, but disturbed by political events between the wars, culminating in Chamberlain's broadcast declaring war on Nazi Germany in September 1939.