COLONIAL DECEPTION - Book Two
Genre: Fiction (Historical)
Publisher: Raglan Self-Publishing
Publication Date: (USA-2014)
ISBN: B00HQQYLKG
Pages: 153
Printed Paperback: US$10.00; + Shipment
Sir John Cumberland returns to England to face the consequences of his voluntary recall. He was given the option of early retirement or demotion to a lower rank. He chose to retire. He finally confesses the truth to his wife, Jane, about his paternity of Dorothy's daughter, Janice, and its cover-up, with the help of Ronald. He takes full blame for concealing it from her and, consequently, will accept whatever she decides to do. However, Jane falls in love with a picture of baby Janice and requests that Janice joins them in England, to which Dorothy agrees. Police Commissioner, Commodore Parish, investigates a series of threatening, anonymous letters accusing Ronald and Kelvin of creating the scandal of Sir John. He recommends a Commission of Inquiry for more in-depth investigation, which resulted in the dismissal of Ronald, then Governor and a reprimand for Kelvin, then Premier of the Associated State. The popularity of Kelvin and his Democratic Party is declining while that of a new political leader, Chance Laville, and the United Front is increasing. The United Front wins the next general election. The Cumberlands take a holiday in Dominica, now that the country was back to normal. Their return was met with much fanfare in the local newspapers; and their holiday was punctuated by intense moments of soul-searching and reconciliation as damaged friendships were repaired.
COLONIAL DECEPTION - Book One
Genre: Fiction (Historical)
Publisher: Raglan Self-Publishing
Publication Date: (USA-2005)
ISBN: 1-4116-7806-0
Pages: 209
Price: Download PDF: $5.00;
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Sir John Cumberland, the Queen's representative in the Caribbean colony of Dominica discovers to his trepidation that a careless, casual encounter with Dorothy, a maid on his domestic staff, results in her pregnancy. His high office and delicate family situation compel him to seek advice from his confidant, the Government Secretary, Ronald, who plans an elaborate cover-up to avert a potential scandal. Their plan, which involves Dorothy’s living-in boyfriend Emanuel, backfires when she was forced to reveal her child's true paternity. The unravelling of the cover-up leads Ronald to reveal the secret to the Chief Minister, Kelvin, who seizes the opportunity to discredit his proverbial 'thorn in the flesh', Sir John Cumberland. They connive to expose the secret and create the scandal. Ronald, of course, could not resist the Chief Minister’s promise to elevate him to the position of His Honor the Administrator when Sir John would be recalled to England.
BORN TOO LATE
(USA-2005), ISBN 1-4116-7807-9
John and Mary have been married for several years now, but have not yet been blessed with children. Finally, they agreed to adoption, which John had resisted. They were waiting for some six months for an offer when their best friends, Martha and Gene found them a baby boy. But, it turns out that, unknowingly, John and Mary adopt John's own son born of infidelity with a former girlfriend. His wife learns of the heartbreaking affair in a cruel, recorded telephone call from his girlfriend. This leads to separation, divorce, reconciliation and, finally, remarriage. See Review by Dr Dorothy Wills
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HOW TO MEASURE YOUR LOVE
(USA-2005)
‘How To Measure Your Love’ unfolds a do-it-yourself technique to be used by those who are serious about love and marriage. It is a carefully researched and tested technique, which can bring great dividends to those seeking true love as the foundation of marriage. It can be your own private marriage counsellor, a source for preparation before marriage and a tool for planning ahead to avoid unforeseen and unnecessary pitfalls. The author states that this do-it-yourself technique does not, in any way, claim to replace established methods practised by professionals like marriage counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other such advisors.
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RUMPUNCH AND PREJUDICE
(U.K.-1998), ISBN 1 85756 319 0
Bruce Knowles, born of English parents in the Caribbean, has spent most of his life in England, always with a festering distrust, amounting to hatred of black people. He is forced to return to Dominica, which he left after discovering his widowed father in bed with a black servant. "The book title captures the fate of many white expatriates who settled in the island of Dominica as they grappled with the isolation resulting from their unwillingness to interact with the local black population. Both Jean Rhys and Alec Waugh have dealt with this problem in their fiction. Raglan Riviere however, focuses not on the near impregnable social wall which separated the races in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but on the dismantling of the barriers between the races in the 1960’s." (See First Book Review by Irving Andre.)
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