Another Kind of Loving
Sylvie Nickels
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'Another Kind of Loving' is the first in a trilogy, 'Distant Voices'. I have always believed in the powerful principles of cause and effect, and the trilogy reflects this, the theme being the effect of war on the children and grandchildren of participants. I have had a long association with former Yugoslavia and was much moved by its break up. Coincidentally my husband and I were guardians of a Balkan girl during her teenage years and learned to see Middle England through her eyes.
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Mike Hennessey, a journalist covering the Bosnian civil war, befriends a child, Jasminka, and brings her back to the village of Daerley Green in north Oxfordshire where he lives with his wife Sara. Unknown to Mike, as a result of an abortion in her teens, Sara is unable to have a child. Jasminka (who soon renames herself Minkie) becomes the daughter she never had. Lonely because of Mike’s increasing absences, Sara becomes drawn into an affair with Beresford, a newcomer to the village. In Sarajevo, Mike seeks out a girl with whom he had briefly had an affair long ago. He finds she has lost two children in the siege and now partners a widower with a young daughter. Mike sees a picture of the two lost children and realises the daughter, Sonja, was his. Minkie meets a young American, Jesse, and eventually they live and work together in Oxford running a travel agency. She will not make a decision to go to America with him until she has revisited Sarajevo. Their visit coincides with 9/11 when Jesse feels the pull of his roots back to America. Minkie also decides to return to her roots and stay in Bosnia.Reviews
Reader's review on Amazon - “Even for those who know nothing of the Balkans and that region’s troubled history, this tale, or rather these tales, for Sylvie’s story has multiple threads skilfully interwoven, is a doorway to a traumatised, tragic and divided that still retains some essential germ of hope and endurance. Contrasted against rural middle England in a way that both comforts and disturbs, Sylvie has crafted a masterpiece of human experience, despair, hope, lover and intrigue.”About the Author
My childhood was dominated by World War Two, my adolescence and young adulthood by post-war austerity. I was always going ‘to be a writer’ and after several secretarial jobs joined a magazine called Go (since gone). After 35 years of freelance travel writing, including 14 for The Financial Times and several travel guides, I returned to my first love, fiction. Sheer stubborness (and hopefully some talent) led to modest success in the women’s magazine markets. I am married to an indefatigable adventurer (George Spenceley), who somehow persuaded me that canoeing the Mississippi was a Good Idea. This resulted in my first self-published book, The Big Muddy (recently reprinted). With the advent of Print on Demand I decided to stop banging my head against the brick wall of mainstream publishing and self-published my first novel 'Another Kind of Loving' in 2005. This has turned into the first of a trilogy. The second novel, 'Beyond the Broken Gate', came out in November 2007.
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Format
Trade Paperback
294 pages pages
Author
Sylvie Nickels
Publisher
Anthony Rowe Publishing Services
Publication date
1st June 2005
Author's Website
www.deddington.org.uk/doldex/category/wr
ISBN
9781905200122
