James Ward

The House of Charles Swinter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When the world is bursting with prospective life-partners, how can two young people, thousands of miles apart on different continents, possibly be the only ones who are right for each other? Well, sometimes... they just can.

"While not normally a book I would choose, I couldn't put it down. Didn't sleep much. Kept reading. Couldn't stop." - Leslie O'Brien, CEO Goldenwest Editing, California.

Charles Swinter is eighty, fabulously wealthy and, since the sudden death of his estranged wife, Vivienne, seemingly on top of the world. It's time to go abroad in search of true love.

Anticipating the inevitable disapproval of his friends, he covers his tracks in England before departing. It's none of their business, after all, and no one knows what's good for him like he does.

Charles quickly locates what he considers the ideal woman. Nongnuch Kitkailart: beautiful, intelligent, desperately poor, pragmatic enough to be highly biddable, and fifty years his junior.

Unfortunately, back in England, people become concerned at his prolonged absence. The police are duly informed, but one particularly close friend, Edward Grant, decides to track him down in person.

Edward is everything Charles is not. Young, good-looking, morally perceptive, loyal, capable of deep and genuine attachment to another human being.

And suddenly - predictably - both are in love with the same woman.

Yet what happens next isn't straightforward. No one's reckoned with the demands of conscience. Nor with murder, mental disturbances, reports of ghosts, a sham marriage, wrongful imprisonment, and an entire further universe of heavy obstacles.

Not the least of which is that Edward's older brother, George, and Charles's granddaughter, Susan, are also mutually smitten, and in a tangle of ways no one on Earth can apparently unpick - including them.

Nevertheless, where there is love, a happy conclusion can never entirely be ruled out. The House of Charles Swinter is an epic romance. It concerns human dignity, the relationship between the sexes, goodness and beauty, poverty and wealth, globalisation, tradition and modernity.

And one man and woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Millennium
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781540199836
• Artikelnr.: 46771228

Autorenporträt

James Ward lives and works in southern England and has been married for over forty years. He has two grown-up boys. His hobbies include walking with his dog in the countryside, visiting charity shops, and reading. He writes fiction, philosophy and poetry, and publishes under the "Cool Millennium Books" imprint (which he hopes one day to broaden to include other authors, and which has its own website). He has over 40,000 followers on TikTok, where he regularly posts videos about serious literature. He can also be found on YouTube.

His most ambitious project, the Tales of MI7 series, was written between 2010 and 2020. It consists of eighteen self-contained novels, set in contemporary London and linked by characters and timeline. It was never intended to be a "series" in the sense of a continuous narrative across different volumes; rather, readers can enjoy any one book without having read the others. All examine the major political, social, international and moral concerns of the second decade of the 21st century. Each individual volume - with the exception of Our Woman in Jamaica - was written contemporaneously with the year in which it was set.

Beginning in 2025 with Firearms & the Fortress, he intends to re-focus his energies on producing philosophical texts intended to throw light on the contemporary world (His 21st Century Philosophy and A New Theory of Justice were both produced over a decade ago). He has an MA and a DPhil in Philosophy, both from the University of Sussex.