Meticulously researched, with index and trees, Salt & Silk is based on fact.
It reveals the history and fortunes of a gentry family in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Salt & Silk - Reviews
“I have finished reading Salt & Silk, and had to write to say how much I have enjoyed it, and how much I miss the irascible old Herbert Aubrey II. The treatment of using the first person has certainly worked, and you have managed to immerse the reader in the past. I’m eagerly awaiting Part Two. This is a brief letter because I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the book and how impressed I am with your scholarship.”
Diana White
(author & editor)
“You have really caught the character of the self important males and the longsuffering females and the general uncertainty of the times. I am truly admiring of your work and you set the scene so well at the outset to bring the people back to life.
It is so unusual too because we know they really lived and were buffeted by the events you describe so it is more compelling somehow than a novel and the very fact that their lives were ordinary brings them back readily to relate to us. I shall be recommending it this Christmas!”
Eileen Pembridge
(lawyer)
“I have just finished the book, very well written, you seem to be living in that period of time I did not want to put the book down, well done.”
Brian Prosser
“Salt & Silk is a great page-turner, and introducing the technique of dialogue enhanced the drama. It imbued the tale with authenticity. Enjoyable and very well-researched – recorded history brought to life!"
Jennifer Jackson
(librarian)
“.. it is fantastic. I am gripped by the fortunes of these people from long ago because you make them seem so real and to speak to us from the pages…
“Salt & Silk succeeds in bringing history to life in a vivid and exciting way.”
Jill Field
(editor)
“There were lots of ‘little’ touches which were included which added to the enjoyment of the era it was set.”
Norma Evans
