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I felt cheated. Cheated out of knowing someone really rather extraordinary.
Author Self-Published
January 2013
On Sale: January 6, 2013
Featuring: Sir James Hastings; Lottie Pye
383 pages
ISBN: 148028887X
EAN: 9781480288874
Kindle: B00ARWFPTW
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Historical
"Can you think of a really good memory? Perhaps you can see
it when you close your eyes. Now, imagine you could take it
out and look at it whenever you wanted to!" Turn of the
century Brighton. A spark is ignited when wide–eyed
Lottie Pye enters Mr Parker's photographic studio and
discovers the new medium that will shape her life, becoming
a passion.
2009: Disgraced politician Sir James Hastings has
resigned himself to living out his retirement in a secluded
Surrey village. He doesn't react when he learns that the
mother who abandoned him as a baby has died at the age of
108: he presumed she had died many years ago. Brought up by
his father, a charismatic war–hero turned racing
driver, young James, torn between self–blame and
longing, eventually dismissed her as the ‘villain' of his
childhood. But, when he inherits her life's work – a
photography collection spanning over six decades – he
is forced to confront his past. Assisted by student Jenny
Jones, who has recently lost her own mother to cancer, Sir
James is persuaded to look at the photographs as if he is
seeing through his mother's eyes. And there he discovers an
extraordinary tale of courage and sacrifice.
"Three. I have three stories," Lottie tells her
solicitor while putting her affairs in order. "But it was
Oscar Wilde who said that a story is almost certainly a lie."
‘A classy and engaging novel' – Hilary Johnson
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