Family Ghosts by Sarah Quick
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You love or hate genealogy. Hepsie Anderson sets out to undermine her father Eb’s obsession for genealogy. Blind Eb believes his ancestors are trying to get in touch with him. Professional genealogist, Mike Johnson, wishes he wasn’t a genealogist. In Amberley 1894, Zennor Anderson has more stressful family concerns on her mind: can she find the courage to tell her husband George the truth? Before he — and the rest of the village — find out.
But it’s only when Zennor returns to Peace Cottage, more than 100 years later, and meets her descendants for the first time, that genealogy becomes more passionate and involved than either Hepsie, Eb, Mike or Zennor could have ever imagined.
In her debut novel, Sarah Quick vividly brings her characters to life with perception,
humour and heart. Portraying a good sense of place, she paints her settings with
an artist’s eye, from the prehistoric wildness of Zennor Hill in Cornwall, to the
gentle, buttercup-
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Family Ghosts reviewed by Helen Blow in the Gloucestershire Echo and The Citizen, 2 July 2011
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See also Kath Garner’s review in the reviews section of Family History Monthly, July 2011 edition
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The Family Ghosts book signing, as recorded by the Gloucestershire Echo
