And so, let’s go with a strong infusion of rosehips, if you have it.
Coffee after breakfast-home-ground, made with a plunger and sweetened with a little honey. Thank you, Mrs B! Well now, I suppose it depends on the time of day. To set the mood for our tea infused interview, what is your preferred beverage, tea, coffee or other? And side accompaniment, scone, cake or other? It is my pleasure to welcome to my blog, Mrs B’s Book Reviews and thank you for joining me for Tea with Mrs B, an author interview series. He lives in the rural south-west of Australia. The main focus of his writing now is fiction, especially of the historical kind. Screen productions used his scripts and many of his articles were published online and in print. Writing was always a compulsion for Stephen, but in later years it drew more attention. Eventually he chose to be a music educator, a vocation he followed for several decades. Stephen took up education as a profession, which took him into both public and private schools in several different roles. He also loved to explore all other languages. He studied classical pianoforte from the age of five and read widely in English literature. Stephen’s twin passions from the earliest years were music and language in all its forms. His ancestors were among the earliest colonists. Stephen Crabbe was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Here to share a pot of tea and to chat about his latest book, Conflict on Kangaroo Island, is Stephen Crabbe. A distinguished author, she tells the story of a remarkable era.Welcome to Tea with Mrs B, an author interview series. Meredith Whitford’s ground-breaking book uses previous unpublished documents and family sources and is essential reading.
They had only had four brief, tempestuous and loving years together. With war ever approaching, Esmond trained to fly and was killed in active service with Bomber Command. After three months of family opposition, they were finally married. In 1937, when Esmond was 18 and Jessica 19 they met and fell madly in love and, scandalously, ran away together to the Communist Front in Spain. Her sister Unity went to Germany and became very close to Hitler, while Diana married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. Jessica Mitford, was one of the notorious Mitford girls – always known as Decca – and grew up in a life of Downton Abbey aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s Rebels is a heart-breaking story of two young people madly in love and in open rebellion against their up-bringing and a way of life.Įsmond Romilly was the nephew of Winston Churchill, a rebel against his family and public school who left England to fight for the rebels in the Spanish Civil War.
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