The Valley of the Vines

Literature & Fiction

Neilson, Mark

Genre Fiction

Robert_Hale

Everybody dreams of a surprise inheritance and one comes to Meg at her lowest ebb, a letter, from an uncle she has never heard of, leaving her a derelict mill and bakery in a Yorkshire dale. With the gift comes a strange final request, asking her to "help close the circle." Meg visits the mill, falls in love with the place and its surroundings, and throws herself into the challenge of rebuilding the old business. In the process she finds new friends—and a new love. But at the back of her mind are the questions of who exactly was the dead Henry Masterton—and why did he leave Meg everything he owned?

A Strange Inheritance

Romance

Contemporary

Becky and Kathy are great friends, and in a cruel yet comforting parallel, both have recently lost their jobs and face the prospect of starting their lives all over again. Becky takes a relative up on his offer of the use of his narrow boat, and sets sail for the Yorkshire Dales, to see if pastures new can help her regain what she’s lost. Kathy finds herself in love with a widower, whose only daughter is still in mourning for her gifted musician mother, her grief proving a solid opponent to any new woman in her father’s life. Both women must endure the weaving and uncertain path of life, and love, towards a second chance at happiness.

Another Chance, Another Life

After World War I, two final stragglers return to North East Scotland to pick up their old lives: Mary Cowie, once a "gutter quine" or fish gutter, who served with the Elsie Inglis Scottish Women Hospitals field units; and Neil Findlay, once the best fishing boat skipper in Buckie, now a shell-shocked wreck. They hope the old life will cure them, but find they have changed too much to settle down again. This is a story of a fishing community following the herring shoals around the coast in their steam drifters, and is rich in local characters like Aggie, the young war widow; Jonathan, the local doctor; and Eric, the skipper who retired too soon to make way for his sons. The shadow of the war refuses to go away for any of these but, with change, comes opportunity. Mary and Neil find their tribal and personal loyalties tested to the full as the herring fishing industry struggles to recover.

The Wind from the Sea

Robert Hale Fiction

Everybody dreams of a surprise inheritance... Meg is at her lowest ebb when she finds that her uncle, Henry Waterston - who she never even knew existed - has left her a derelict windmill in a Yorkshire dale. With the gift comes a strange final request, asking her to 'help close the circle'. Meg visits the mill, falls in love with the place and throws herself into the challenge of rebuilding the old business. In the process she finds new friends - and a new love. But who exactly was Henry Waterston, and why did he leave Meg everything he owned?

Ulverscroft Softcover

In a cruel yet comforting parallel, friends Becky and Kathy have recently both lost their jobs, and face the prospect of starting their lives all over again. Taking up the offer to borrow her elderly uncle's narrowboat, Becky sets sail for the Yorkshire Dales with her son Jonathon, wondering if new pastures might help her regain what she's lost. Meanwhile, Kathy finds herself in love with a widower whose only daughter is still in mourning for her lost mother - her grief proving a solid opponent to any new woman in her father's life...

<p>This novel traces the story of the final Scottish Women's Hospital Volunteers Unit, which was set up on the Eastern Front in Russia in 1916. Sent to help the Serbian army, it was largely taken over by the retreating Russian army, and suffered being left to its own devices during three major defeats and retreats. In the process, it coped with unbelievable levels of war casualties, mostly on its own. The novel tells how the Unit survived the war, and the Russian collapse when that country was torn apart by its revolutions, through the eyes of a young doctor surgeon, Anna Hardisty, who as deputy leader found herself in charge of an impossible task - not just to help the war wounded, but to bring the Unit safely home</p>

anna's war

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Neilson, Mark. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Neilson, Mark

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Neilson, Mark. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

The Valley of the Vines

A Strange Inheritance

Another Chance, Another Life

The Wind from the Sea

A Strange Inheritance

Another Chance, Another Life

anna's war