If you missed the Family fictions feature in the December issue of Family History Monthly, here's another chance to read what they said about Family Ghosts and me!
(With thanks to Hollie Bond for permission to reproduce it here.)
Sarah Quick is a self-confessed genealogy addict, whose love of family history research led her to write Family Ghosts.
And Sarah's passion is reflected in the characters of her novel, who become more involved in genealogy than they could ever have imagined.
Sarah's own genealogical journey began in 2001, when she saw some of her maternal grandmother's family possessions on display in a museum. She drew on her grandmother's and mother's memories of living and growing up in Amberley while writing the novel: "From their recollections and local history research, I wrote a story that, I hoped, would show how genealogy could unexpectedly take us on a journey and change our outlook."
The opening scene, where the protagonist Zennor Anderson is 'looking at her accidental death from afar,', was "inspired by the family myth that my great-grandmother and her husband had been killed in a horse and carriage accident."
Sarah believes family historians can learn lessons from Family Ghosts. "No matter how you first approach genealogy, your point of view will be changed", she says.
"Genealogy brings not only the family closer together, but past and present too!"
http://www.sarahjquick.co.uk/
Hollie Bond
PS. I'm secretly thrilled to be sharing the reviews page with such notable writers as Edmund de Waal (The Hare with Amber Eyes) and Flora Thompson, author of that all-time classic, Lark Rise to Candleford.
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