The author was born in the UK and has travelled extensively having lived for various periods of time in Germany, Spain and Africa. He has lived in the UK for many years with his wife, Sue, and his border collie/ bearded collie cross. His hobbies and interests include walking, writing, and reading, history from the iron age through to the early twentieth century, and natural history.
In March 1926, Sam and Sally received a letter from a lawyer inviting them to attend an urgent meeting. They were shocked to find they had been left a thousand-acre estate. The mystery was that they had never met the man who bequeathed them the estate known as Lakewood, and that his son had been dis...