The Sick Rose - Mothersole, Brenda
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Isobel Keenan is researching a wartime connection between her late grandmother and a young woman Betsy Unwinton who reputedly disappeared from the women's internment camp on the Isle of Man in 1940. Her research leads her to the autobiography of a seventeen- year old Austrian refugee, Josef Kronfeld, who describes a romantic relationship with Betsy. His autobiography explains how he came to arrive in England as a Kindertransport refugee. However, Josef's autobiography falls short of revealing the connection between Betsy and Isobel's grandmother. This remains a mystery Isobel still wants to…mehr

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Isobel Keenan is researching a wartime connection between her late grandmother and a young woman Betsy Unwinton who reputedly disappeared from the women's internment camp on the Isle of Man in 1940. Her research leads her to the autobiography of a seventeen- year old Austrian refugee, Josef Kronfeld, who describes a romantic relationship with Betsy. His autobiography explains how he came to arrive in England as a Kindertransport refugee. However, Josef's autobiography falls short of revealing the connection between Betsy and Isobel's grandmother. This remains a mystery Isobel still wants to resolve. Meanwhile, Isobel has own local race discrimination problems to deal with and the storylines begin to merge.
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Brenda Mothersole PhD, BA was born in 1931 in Uxbridge, UK. Commuting to school through the war years she completed school at 16 and started work in a cartography office in Whitehall, London helping to rebuild the towns damaged by bombing. She married and had two sons. Approaching 40, Brenda decided to re-start her education gaining a BA in English and Law and became lecturer in Law at a local College. She completed by a PhD at Brunel University where she obtained her Doctorate in 1980. She published two books for GCSE and A-Level students. Brenda was passionate about supporting her community and volunteered with the Citizen Advice Bureau, AgeUK and the Talking Newspaper. She loved walking and visiting ancient cave art around the world. She enjoyed all forms of literature and classical music. It was in her retirement that she decided to write novels of which The Sick Rose was the first followed by Detachment then Sarah's Walk.