About
the Book
Author:
Frederick Atwood
Genre:
Historical Romance
Handsome Englishman
Marcus Southey is running from the law after an illicit affair goes
wrong.
As he flees across
the Scottish border, his path crosses that of fiery red headed
Roberta Kyle, herself desperate to escape from the clutches of the
loathsome Hamish McGheill. A partnership is born out of desperation,
their mutual destination Glasgow. Along the way they meet up with a
prize fighting troupe. Roberta encourages Marcus - against his better
judgement - to partake in a bout. He wins and this sets him on the
road to boxing success. Taking them from the slums of Glasgow to the
halls of the aristocracy. Theirs is a strange relationship, at times
tempestuous and at others contemptuous, layered over with an abiding
care for each other.
Author
Bio
The 82 year old
author has seen many changes in his long life. As a boy growing up in
pre-war Australia, the horse and cart were still commonly used by
tradesmen. Women, by and large were home makers, while the man went
out and earned the daily bread. It was a time when left handed
children such as himself were made to write with their right hand.
Life as we now know it, came about when war was declared in 1939,
bringing vast changes to our daily lives. The emancipation of women,
which began in WWI, escalated during WWII. After the war he saw the
industrialised nations, switch from building warships and planes, to
cars, and refrigerators. He saw the landing of a man on the moon. In
fact he played a part in the Apollo space probe in 1968, when he was
assigned to supervise the land line link between the Carnarvon Earth
Station and the facility at Tidbinbilla, situated near Canberra. He
was at one time Media Liaison Officer with Telecom Australia,
attending many major sporting events. Later on he was appointed
Senior Traffic Officer-in-charge of Telegraphs West Australia.
As a young man
Frederick was an excellent cyclist and won many major cycling events.
Upon his retirement he was able to indulge his love of history with
his love of writing. With a long life comes a fund of knowledge and
experience of the frailties of human kind, but also the innate
goodness in most people. He has put these ingredients together to
produce a number of historical/drama/romance novels. Frederick and
his wife of fifty four years have three children and seven
grandchildren.
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