An excerpt from Forgiving Nancy:
Opposite the hotel was a church with a graveyard, but it didn’t disturb the lively cosmopolitan vibrations in this quarter of the city. The ancient blackened graves in the bushes went largely unnoticed by passers-by, but for Nancy it was a different matter. She felt a sudden tightening in her heart as she saw the gravestones. It was only the previous summer that she had buried her parents after a coach crash in Austria; her emotions towards this unnoticed secluded place had become poignant then.
To the right, high up over all the gravestones on top of the great mass of jagged rugged rock was Edinburgh Castle, as permanent a sight as anything ever could be. The castle sat with an air of majesty, like a king on his throne, the sky wrapped around like a cloak of blue silk’.
A quotation from Sheryl Browne’s 5 star review of Forgiving Nancy which can be read fully on Amazon: ‘Forgiving Nancy gives us a wonderful array of colourful characters and stunning descriptions of Edinburgh’.
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