A Compost of Secrets - Edwards, Ian
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Family secrets, despite their quiescence, do not die entirely. They merely compost over the decades, becoming part of a soil which produces new consequences for old decisions.Ruth and Todd are a generation apart. She is a pillar of the church and he is on the point of leaving it. One day Ruth, who is 93, invites Todd to a Bequest Society luncheon at the Port Adelaide football club - she has surrendered her driving licence and would welcome both a companion and a ride. At church Todd and Ruth talk about the footy. At the club they talk about their lives and their church. When Ruth reveals how,…mehr

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Family secrets, despite their quiescence, do not die entirely. They merely compost over the decades, becoming part of a soil which produces new consequences for old decisions.Ruth and Todd are a generation apart. She is a pillar of the church and he is on the point of leaving it. One day Ruth, who is 93, invites Todd to a Bequest Society luncheon at the Port Adelaide football club - she has surrendered her driving licence and would welcome both a companion and a ride. At church Todd and Ruth talk about the footy. At the club they talk about their lives and their church. When Ruth reveals how, at age six, she was seriously injured, falling nine metres into the empty hold of the old Windjammer her family lived on, it marks the start of a quest by Ruth and Todd to better understand her family and its secrets. For it was on the day of this accident that Ruth's father mysteriously disappeared from her life.Friendship cuts through Ruth and Todd's differences to shed light not only on past secrets but on what is passing in their lives now: her church and his faith.
Autorenporträt
Ian Edwards joined The Loyal Edmonton Regiment in 1959. He served in the ranks for ten years. As a sergeant he was a rifle platoon 2ic, company quartermaster sergeant, and battalion orderly room chief clerk. He was a second lieutenant and quartermaster of The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. As a captain, he commanded army cadet corps of both regiments. Ian graduated from the University of Alberta in 1972 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He has collected Canadian Army insignia since 1970, and was elected honorary life member of the Military Collectors' Club of Canada in 2018 for his decades of service on the Club's national and local executives. Ian was the editor of the Forty-Niner magazine from 1995 to 1997, and a volunteer at The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Military Museum since 1998. Ian was presented with the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1974 and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2006.