Joan Dudley

Elven Task (eBook, ePUB)

Book One Jane's Journey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The whole village stopped harvesting and the rushed to see the baby from nowhere found naked in the middle of the wheat field. The priest said the strange mark below her neck nape was really a letter. A J: probably for Jane. So Jane she was. And as there was no village family who could afford to keep and dower her, it was decided she should be shared. She was passed from cottage to cottage for loving and tending, and then as she grew, to help as she could And to learn every women's skill to equip her for a maid's place at the Big House when she was twelve summers old. This was a happy childhood, but the longed for Big House place was a disaster. On her second day she was thrown out to go home in a blizzard. She was rescued by an elvish noblewoman and tumbled into adventures in a strange land. Forced to flee from death threats she does not understand, Jane seeks shelter in a great forest which is the traditional home of the ancient Elven folk. Her adventures lead to the setting upon her of an Elven task to find someone lost. She is given only a name and told, "When you find her you will know her." This is the story of the search. It follows her travels through a cities and countries of a world unknown to her. She encounters ordinary and powerful people, both human and of the elder races. Journeying on Jane learns more than she ever dreamed possible when she was first plunged into adventure. So the story is one of growing up in unforeseeable circumstances. It is also a story of warm relationships with new friends whose own exciting adventures have touch and enliven her own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798369497005
• Artikelnr.: 72354565

Autorenporträt

Joan Dudley is a retired psychologist whose clients had problems with work or study. Apart from this book she is not an author, but was a habitual maker of stories for her five children. That is germane, since as they are now in their sixties, this story is the last one. The story was made late in Joan's working life when she shared a flat with her daughter, Prudence, then in her fifties and also working. Joan says that one night Prue suddenly offered to do all the housework every night in exchange for a story while she did it. She gave a brief sentence summarising the plot and specified: a fairytale with actual fairies. And a witch. She then took up the broom and started. Joan instantly lounged on the sofa and started too. Joan grew up in the Hobart Botanical Gardens, where her father was the superintendent. His work as a botanist was to find and catalogue the plants unique to Tasmania. This involved exploring the forests, often with directions from local people taking him from landmark to landmark in search of particular specimens. As soon as she could walk with a minimum of carrying, he toot Joan with him, so the love and understanding of forests has become part of her life. Joan now lives in a mountain town. Her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Ian, have made her a small house of her own in their garden. She enjoys exploring the area, and getting used the differences between the local community and inner city Sydney where she spent most of her working life.