The Hangman's Grandson - Couverture souple

Robinson, Max

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798849557274

Editeur : Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

I am not the first Ashford to be a writer. My ancestor Daisy Ashford was born on Tuesday 7th April 1881. She left us on Saturday 15th January 1972.

Daisy was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile spelling and punctuation.

When I was writing my book THE BRIDGE HOUSE between 2016 and 2018 I felt I had Daisy looking over my shoulder.

The Bridge House is a love story spanning ninety years beginning in 1901 the year of the death of Queen Victoria. The two central characters come from working class and landed gentry but love has no recognition of class as it existed in the late Victorian and Edwardian ages.

Daisy later wrote a book The Hangman’s Daughter which she claimed was her best work. I found a copy on e-bay and splashed out a few pounds to add it to my collection of family heritage. I never did get round to reading it and now as I write this book I am deliberately not opening its cover.

Over many years I have studied cases where lives were ended with the hangman’s rope. I am old enough to remember when capital punishment was in use in our country. I met someone my father knew who was a high court judge, it was he who had pronounced the death sentence on many a convicted murderer, including John Reginald Christie the 10 Rillington Place killer. I discuss the rights and wrongs of capital punishment in my book BEHIND THE NOOSE OR KNOT. (It features in my collection THE ENID FACTOR) Daisy is now tapping me on the shoulder telling me to write a book drawing from her title. So here we go with The Hangman’s Grandson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798849557274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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