Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
Val: bookophile — writer, editor, and book publisher. She loves to help new writers get their books into print.
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I love words, using them, reading them, reading about them, playing with them, turning them inside-out, taking them apart, and putting them together again.
I write books because I must; no one else will write my books, so it is my mission to get as many of my books published as possible.
Over the year 2012, I pulled out a dozen of my manuscripts and turned them into books. All are on Kindle. Eight are in paperback. They include an astonishingly complete book of grammar (the last grammar book you'll ever need) titled The Anarchist's Guide to Grammar and a reprint of its predecessor, Grammar For Grownups.
Read about them at my website: www.valdumond.com or on my grammar blog: http://www.grammaranarchist.blogspot.com/
My novels are gentle, light reading about what-ifs and refurbished dreams. I even published a collection of my short stories and plays, Cloudbursts (when a writer writes, it's like a cloud bursting and showering the world).
Read about them all at my website: www.valdumond.com
Or blog: www.grammaranarchist.com/
or blog: http://www.twelvein12.blogspot.com/
Contact Information
Muddy Puddle Press
P O Box 97124
Lakewood WA 98497
USA