| Author: | Raymond Nickford | ISBN: | 1230000510707 |
| Publisher: | Haunted Books | Publication: | June 23, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Raymond Nickford |
| ISBN: | 1230000510707 |
| Publisher: | Haunted Books |
| Publication: | June 23, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Why, Pavlos wonders, must he be hypnotised by his father ? Why the nausea, that pit of obedience ... the next 'Greek lesson' ? What 'family' could it be, when his father digs for relatives he knows were all incinerate****d during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974?
Raymond Nickford has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from University College of North Wales. Troubled souls, the lonely, his inspiration.
Aristo's Family
Set in Paphos on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Aristo's obsessive need to trace and belong to his family - even though he was told they were all burnt and left unidentifiable during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - has estranged his English wife, and is gradually distancing his only child while, in turn, Pavlos has a consuming need to feel he belongs; that he has a Dad who will make time - for him.
As the practices at Papas' late-night museum 'staff meetings' unfold themselves to Pavlos, the boy is led deeper into a sinister confrontation with what Papas calls his 'family', but which brings Pavlos, through the ancient face-masks and relics, to the unquiet souls of Greeks believed to have been thousands of years dead.
Both a father's and a son's need to belong, so long mutually exclusive, so long tested, are at the core of this novel. Father and son... or strangers forever ?
Other titles :
Family Tree : Stories of Love Beyond the Grave
The body of Eddy's mother was found entangled in fungus-laden roots of the rotting ancient yew on the cemetery side of the family's garden fence. At nights, Eddy stutters, imploring his father to believe that the tree – or is it his mother – seems to call him. Dad just keeps saying “Grief works in strange ways, boy. You'll heal !” But that tree... Mum... calls. Should he sneak out... to the cemetery side? Or had Mum gone to that cold place which Dad kept saying was “Just death by misadventure, Eddy, as the autopsy stated” ?
Loss of family and loved ones revealing how, for those left behind, hurt and longing can find resolution – where unexpected.
**Winner of the Harper Collins Gold Star award May 2010 :
A Child from the Wishing Well**
Gerard's only wish is to escape the dark of chronic paranoia, be closer for his lonely daughter. He accompanies Rosie to violin lessons with eccentric but friendly music tutor Miss Stein. But could the old spinster's often foul-smelling “wishing” well really be a place for his wish ?
Sunday Times best-selling author, Barbara Erskine, comments:
“ Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing.”
Editorial Reviews:
' Atmospheric, vibrant, spooky page-turner. '
Reay Tannahill - historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
'Growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the first scary movie I remember seeing was the 1965 Bette Davis movie, The Nanny. To this day, that movie has always stuck with me as one of the great psychological thrillers of all time. For me, A Child from the Wishing Well, is reminiscent of that movie.'
Candace Bowen Early - author of A Knight of Silence
Twists in the Tale
Schizophrenic Sam Baldock says he “hears” Beethoven calling him. For therapy, his doctor and daughter Joanne accompany Sam to the Beethoven Museum in Vienna, once the composer's apartment. Will lonely Joanne, at last, get closer - to her strange Dad ?
Mister Kreasey's Demon
Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself from losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ?
“Well, are we going to see you in them?” she smiled, still holding his shorts out like a trophy. But as he watched her lips, they seemed to shape like those in a poorly dubbed film where voice is out-of-sync with words... reminding him to 'eat up' all his tablets and then he'd never be 'cut up' . "
Why, Pavlos wonders, must he be hypnotised by his father ? Why the nausea, that pit of obedience ... the next 'Greek lesson' ? What 'family' could it be, when his father digs for relatives he knows were all incinerate****d during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974?
Raymond Nickford has a degree in Psychology and Philosophy from University College of North Wales. Troubled souls, the lonely, his inspiration.
Aristo's Family
Set in Paphos on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Aristo's obsessive need to trace and belong to his family - even though he was told they were all burnt and left unidentifiable during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus - has estranged his English wife, and is gradually distancing his only child while, in turn, Pavlos has a consuming need to feel he belongs; that he has a Dad who will make time - for him.
As the practices at Papas' late-night museum 'staff meetings' unfold themselves to Pavlos, the boy is led deeper into a sinister confrontation with what Papas calls his 'family', but which brings Pavlos, through the ancient face-masks and relics, to the unquiet souls of Greeks believed to have been thousands of years dead.
Both a father's and a son's need to belong, so long mutually exclusive, so long tested, are at the core of this novel. Father and son... or strangers forever ?
Other titles :
Family Tree : Stories of Love Beyond the Grave
The body of Eddy's mother was found entangled in fungus-laden roots of the rotting ancient yew on the cemetery side of the family's garden fence. At nights, Eddy stutters, imploring his father to believe that the tree – or is it his mother – seems to call him. Dad just keeps saying “Grief works in strange ways, boy. You'll heal !” But that tree... Mum... calls. Should he sneak out... to the cemetery side? Or had Mum gone to that cold place which Dad kept saying was “Just death by misadventure, Eddy, as the autopsy stated” ?
Loss of family and loved ones revealing how, for those left behind, hurt and longing can find resolution – where unexpected.
**Winner of the Harper Collins Gold Star award May 2010 :
A Child from the Wishing Well**
Gerard's only wish is to escape the dark of chronic paranoia, be closer for his lonely daughter. He accompanies Rosie to violin lessons with eccentric but friendly music tutor Miss Stein. But could the old spinster's often foul-smelling “wishing” well really be a place for his wish ?
Sunday Times best-selling author, Barbara Erskine, comments:
“ Beautifully observed characters, atmospheric, intriguing.”
Editorial Reviews:
' Atmospheric, vibrant, spooky page-turner. '
Reay Tannahill - historian, novelist and author of The Seventh Son.
'Growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the first scary movie I remember seeing was the 1965 Bette Davis movie, The Nanny. To this day, that movie has always stuck with me as one of the great psychological thrillers of all time. For me, A Child from the Wishing Well, is reminiscent of that movie.'
Candace Bowen Early - author of A Knight of Silence
Twists in the Tale
Schizophrenic Sam Baldock says he “hears” Beethoven calling him. For therapy, his doctor and daughter Joanne accompany Sam to the Beethoven Museum in Vienna, once the composer's apartment. Will lonely Joanne, at last, get closer - to her strange Dad ?
Mister Kreasey's Demon
Broken by his street-hardened London students, reduced to paranoia, can Amy's teacher stop himself from losing she, alone, he might have trusted, might have loved ?
“Well, are we going to see you in them?” she smiled, still holding his shorts out like a trophy. But as he watched her lips, they seemed to shape like those in a poorly dubbed film where voice is out-of-sync with words... reminding him to 'eat up' all his tablets and then he'd never be 'cut up' . "
