I am delighted to announce that I am on the final, final, final, final … edit of my new book
No Song in a Strange Land
and hope to have it ready to go live on Amazon on December 1st. Below is my Author’s Note at the beginning of the book which explains how I came up with the idea for the story.
I thought as it is Remembrance Sunday that it would be good to post it today.
Author’s Note
Last year, after finishing The Circle, I decided to research my family tree as I had time on my hands and no idea what I would write about next. I’m glad I did, as No Song in a Strange Land would not have happened otherwise.
I found out that my grandfather, Angus Macdonald, had gone to Canada in 1896 and had promised to come back and marry my grandmother, Marion, also Macdonald, when she grew up. He was twenty years older than her. True to his word he returned in 1911, they married and travelled to Canada to his farm in Saskatchewan. My dad’s sister was born there, and I was told was delivered by a native woman. The wolves that howled in the night terrified my grandmother and she persuaded my grandfather to return to Scotland.
The initial idea for this book came from what I thought was a strange marriage arrangement between my grandparents. I never found out the reason for it, so everything in this book is from my imagination and bears no relation to whatever the reality of the situation was.
I thoroughly enjoyed the research that I carried out as I learned so much about life in the prairies and about World War 1. What a brave and adventurous generation they were.
May we always remember them.
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