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This Ruined Place by Michael Lawrence
Target Age: NA / Adult
Genre: Historical fiction
Tour Dates: 19th May 2025
Publication Date: 1st November 2023
Estimated Page Count: 245
Standalone Novel in a loosely connected series of books. It’s not a traditional series, but distant relatives of the same family appear in each of the three books.
Formats available: Epub
Types of post available: Reviews Only
Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/u/bwBNZy
Evy Miller thinks a summer with her grandparents in sleepy Dorset will be painfully dull. Her suspicions are confirmed when Juby, a wild-haired, lanky old man, strolls through her grandparents' doorway. At first, she thinks he’s nothing more than an odd duck who charms her grandmother and annoys her grandfather. The last thing she expects is to become his companion on visits to the small village of Rouklye, whose entire population was evicted during WWII.
She has no idea that the reason for Juby’s visits will become a defining moment in her life and change her understanding of history and her own family forever.
About Michael Lawrence
MICHAEL LAWRENCE has written and published a great many books, but he's done a few other too. For instance, after leaving art school he began training as a graphic designer in a London studio before morphing into a photographer. As a photographer he took pictures for advertising agencies, publishers and newspapers, of pop stars and politicians, of fashion models and underwear, and many other kinds of people and things besides. He also worked in a travelling circus for a little while, and has been an antiques dealer, co-owned two art galleries, and made hundreds of paintings, drawings and experimental digital images. One of his private joys is recording songs (many of which he's written) under the alias Aldous U.
As a writer he's won the odd award, had books translated into twenty or so languages (one of which - 'Young Dracula' - was the inspiration for five BBC-TV series), has shuffled onto stages at literary festivals, and been interviewed on TV and radio. 'There's more,' he says, 'but I don't want to bore you. There's a lot of me in the Rainey novels, but I'm not saying which bits.'
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