The Hut - Couverture souple

Gerloch, Malcolm

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1804680001 ISBN 13 : 9781804680001

Editeur : Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Faced with the loss of his ancestral home following the huge increase in death duties in mid-twentieth century Britain, Michael Montayne forges an unusual enterprise with his best man, whose family turns out to have been shamefully entangled with Michael's for generations past. The Montayne's home is transformed into a private retreat, club and grand hotel for acceptable, wealthy guests who may partake of its comfort, exquisite food and wine and, above all, Michael's company - and of one or two other secret facilities - by invitation only. This is a story of love and tenderness, humour and good humour, trust and honour, and of money and betrayal, played out by a potpourri of memorable characters from around the world and from a wide variety of backgrounds, whose adventures take us aboard canalboats and cruise liners, up a mountain and around a golf course. ‘The Hut is You!', an old friend tells Michael; if only he would believe it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Malcolm Gerloch was born in 1939 in Hull, East Yorkshire. He was educated at Hymers College there, and subsequently at Imperial College in London where he spent six years working for his bachelor and first doctorate degrees. After two years in post-doctoral research in magnetochemistry and ligand-field theory at the University of Manchester, he was appointed lecturer before moving, the following year, to University College, London. After three years, he was appointed to a post as Assistant Director of Research in chemistry in the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science there in 1980 and promoted to Reader in Inorganic Chemistry in 1984. He retired in 1999 and is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall. He and his wife, Gwyneth, now live in Canberra, Australia where they enjoy many of the usual pleasures of what might have been expected to be a quiet life in retirement. At 78, Malcolm began writing non-scientific books to add to his four technical books and over 120 research papers. He currently boasts some dozen children's books, together with a collection of short stories and a couple of autobiographical accounts of life before and after retirement; he has recently completed his second novel. Malcolm has two daughters, three grandsons and innumerable stray cats.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804680001
• ISBN 13: 9781804680001
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne