John Paul Bernett

A Switch in Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Alicia is the oldest child of a Billionaire transport mogul in the 21st century. Alice is the eldest child of a very poor coal barge owner in the 19th century. They both live very different lives in extremely different times. Alicia is the world champion at being a spoilt bitch with the sort of money she would need four lifetimes to spend. Alice however has nothing but a short life of toil to look forward to. Alicia has a brother who hates the ground she walks on, A mother who is more spoilt than she is and a father who lavishes everything she as ever wanted upon her. Alice has a brother who adores her, a hard working mother who is gentle and kind and a father who has never been able to buy her anything but has lavished love upon her. Alicia's brother lives in the past, his subject at university was history and he and a friend are restoring an old railway line with the hope of making a preserved Railway Alice's brother wants to know about the new steam technology that is transforming his world but he is locked into his family's coal barge business. Can time change a man's future; can the past help a modern idea. Doe's a time we live in dictate how we behave As a father falls gently asleep he asks for help from his long dead father to save his family, but his deceased relative wasn't tuned in that day. When you cast a question into the darkness you don't know who or what is listening and you can have no effect on the outcome. Be careful what you wish for, because it just might happen.This is a story about an industrial revolution in the now and the past; it's about love and loss. Most of all it's about to change your future or the course of how things turn out for others. Money isn't everything and there is more to being poor than meets the eye. A cloud of energy appears over Leeds in 19th and 21st century. The past meets the present and the rest is A Switch in Time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mindfast Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780992617387
• ISBN-10: 0992617383
• Artikelnr.: 58069802

Autorenporträt

John Paul Bernett was born and raised in South Leeds in Yorkshire England. His upbringing in that part of the world is something he is proud of and was one of rugby and hard times. South Leeds in the 1950s and 1960s was a hard place to live but in his mind a great place to grow up. At school he was an underachiever but later found that he suffered badly from dyslexia. In art he excelled even to the extent of having a painting of Tutankhamen's Death mask hang in Leeds art gallery for a short time. Art was to be his chosen career but his dyslexia held him back as he was ungraded in English and Maths which stopped his progression to art school. He had began to write stories from being about eight years old but would never show them to anyone for fear of the laughter he had to endure throughout his school life. As soon as a story was finished it was torn into pieces and he would begin another. This carried on throughout his adult life until he met his wife Beverly. While writing one evening she came up to him and asked what he was doing. The book was immediately closed and he advised her of his phobia of people seeing his work. To cut a long story short she got to see his work and liked it. As she was a radiology transcriptionist and typing was her forte she began to edit the story he was working on and before long Atkinson's Administration his first novel was born. It was published in 2012 and was well received. Although his dyslexia hampers his reading ability; now he has Beverly it doesn't affect his writing any more and his stories are read all over the world