Ghosts and Gulls - Taylor, Bill
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The novel is semi-fiction. It is based on actual events that did not occur in the Middle Ages but in the second half of the twentieth century. The central character is Esther, a tomboy who desperately wanted to be a member of an all-male gang and who believed she could secure her dream by letting all the gang's members make love to her. Inevitably she became pregnant, more than once while still an unmarried teenager. Malcolm Neilson decided that the veneer of the village's churchy respectability had to be preserved at all costs. Esther had to be punished.She was exiled and forced to accept…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The novel is semi-fiction. It is based on actual events that did not occur in the Middle Ages but in the second half of the twentieth century. The central character is Esther, a tomboy who desperately wanted to be a member of an all-male gang and who believed she could secure her dream by letting all the gang's members make love to her. Inevitably she became pregnant, more than once while still an unmarried teenager. Malcolm Neilson decided that the veneer of the village's churchy respectability had to be preserved at all costs. Esther had to be punished.She was exiled and forced to accept Malcolm's rigid conditions. How she eventually got her revenge forms the climax of this saga which contains many unexpected twists as the apparently idyllic fun of childhood became replaced by the brutality of adulthood.
Autorenporträt
Bill is a "Third Culture Person" who was born in Costa Rica and lived for 30 years in Latin America. A has a PhD in Latin American studies from the University of Texas, Austin. A former Texas staff of lnterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Bill served for 17 years with CAM International in leadership development at the Seminario Teológico Centroamericano in Guatemala. He and his wife were also on a church planting team in Guatemala.Based in Austin, Texas, Bill served the global missions force through WEF in missiological concerns, developing national missionary movements, missionary training, strategic research, and publications. Bill's passions are to finish well and to do all that he can to pack heaven with worshipers.