Introduction
Art Quill Studio is the Education Division of Art Quill & Co Pty Ltd. I'm a director of the parent company, and I also head Art Quill Studio.
The parent company and its division, Art Quill Studio, mainly focusses on artistic endeavours, especially in the area of ArtCloth and ArtCloth Installations, Commissioned Artworks, Fabric Lengths, Wearable Art and Prints on Paper etc. However, the parent company, Art Quill & Co Pty Ltd, also publishes artist printmakers' books (e.g. Not in My Name and Beyond the Fear of Freedom).
Marie-Therese Wisniowski's Artist Printmakers' Book - Not in My Name.
Limited Edition: A total of 10 editions only, five of which are held in the collections of: University of Queensland Library (6/10), National Library of Australia (7/10), University of Sydney Library (8/10), State Library of New South Wales (9/10) and NSW Parliamentary Library (10/10).
Recommended retail price: AUstralian Dollar (AUD) $1550.00 (plus shipping).
Editions for sale: 2/10, 3/10, 4/10 and 5/10.
ISBN 0 646 42979 5
Marie-Therese Wisniowski's Artist Printmakers' Book - Beyond The Fear Of Freedom.
Limited Edition: A total of 15 editions, seven of which are held in the collections of: Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (USA) (9/15), Beau Beausoleil (USA) (10/15), Department of Art & Design, University of Western England, Bristol, UK (11/15), The National Library of Australia (12/15), State Library of NSW (13/15), University of Sydney Library (14/15) and NSW Parliamentary Library (15/15).
Recommended retail price: AUD $2,000 (plus shipping).
Editions for sale: 2/15, 3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 6/15, 7/15 and 8/15.
ISBN 978-0-9873013-7
The company has recently published a puzzle solver that is available for purchase from the company.
Dr E I von Nagy-Felsobuki, The Sudoku Solver.
Recommended retail price: AUD $14.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-1-4
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales and NSW Parliamentary Library.
The company has recently published the first novel in the trilogy titled - 4 Steps To Freedom. The novel has been set in a historical context in Germany between 1935 to 1949. The first novel in the trilogy can be ordered via a retail bookstore such as booktopia or directly from the distributor: John Reed Books.
Kalle Gayn, 4 Steps to Freedom (Front Cover).
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-2-1
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales, NSW Parliamentary Library, East Gippsland Shire Library (Vic), Monaro Regional Libraries (Bombala, NSW) and Cessnock City Library (NSW).
To read my interview with Kalle Gayn about his first novel in the trilogy, click on the following link: 4 Steps to Freedom.
The company has recently published Kalle Gayn's second novel in the trilogy and it is titled, 'Reign of the Mother.'
Kalle Gayn, Reign of the Mother (Front Cover).
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-3-8
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales and the NSW Parliamentary Library.
Kalle Gayn, Reign of the Mother (Back Cover).
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-3-8
Both novels have been written so they can be read independently of each other. However, reading both novels will yield a greater insight into the main character of the trilogy, Magrete.
I was involved as a proofreader as well as being the design and layout artist of '4 Steps to Freedom' and 'Reign of the Mother' and so the author, Kalle Gayn, has dedicated both novels to me. I'm hardly an unbiased interviewer!
Today's post is an interview that I conducted with the author about his second novel in the trilogy.
I hope you enjoy it!
Marie-Therese Wisniowski
PS. If you wish to send an email to the author, Kalle Gayn, email the author at: Kalle Gayn.
Reign of the Mother
Author Interview: Kalle Gayn
M-T: Welcome back to my blogspot Kalle, and thank you for dedicating both of your novels to me.
KG: Thank you for interviewing me on your blogspot again, Marie-Therese! The dedications reflect your hard work in bringing these two novels into fruition.
M-T: We need to reflect on the first novel in the trilogy in order to place the second novel in its proper context.
Magrete Holweg lost her first husband, Herbert von Appen, prior to WWII. She was pregnant at the time with his child, Ilse, when he died. Herbert was a Nazi and an acquaintance of Himmler. Her second husband, George Nagy, was a good friend of Herbert von Appen. George and Magrete married late in 1943. George Nagy led a research team at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry under the directorship of Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Otto Hahn.
Professor Otto Hahn.
When the Institute moved from Berlin to Tailfingen (a small village on the German-Swiss border) George relocated his family there.
Paulus Kirche (Paulus Church), Tailfingen.
M-T: Throughout the war Magrete was harbouring a Jewess, Anna, under the guise as her servant and so she saved Anna's life from the Nazi holocaust. Anna, after the war, met an American intelligence officer Captain Euguene Gould, who she later married. Just prior to Anna and Eugene leaving for America, Anna hated Magrete because of Anna's misheld belief that Magrete was responsible for Anna's Aunt's murder early in the war. On the day that Eugene and Anna were leaving Tailfingen for America, Anna discovered that she had got it wrong and so their friendship was rekindled.
Do you wish to add to what I have revealed so far?
KG: Only that Magrete had three children to her second husband, George, namely, Elisabeth, Eva and Francis with Francis being the youngest. Nevertheless, Ilse, the eldest of Magrete's children was the first child George had parented and so he had a special affection for her, even though she was not his child.
M-T: The first novel, 4 Steps to Freedom, has been characterized by East Gippsland Regional Library (Vic), Monaro Regional Libraries (Bombala, NSW), and by Cessnock City Library (NSW) as: Women (Fiction), Female Friendship (Fiction), Australia (Fiction), Germany (Fiction) and lastly, Historical Fiction. Do you agree with these categorisations of your first novel in the trilogy?
KG: I do! However, to give the reader a more concrete feel for the first two novels in the trilogy, I would put them in the genre of a 'Historical Literary Fiction' and so in the same genre as Dr Zhivago. I'm not claiming that my first two novels in the trilogy are of the same calibre, rather I am asserting that my characters are placed in a non-fiction historical context that they have no control over, and so both novels centre on how these characters react to the reality that they are immersed in.
Cover of the novel, Dr Zhivago.
M-T: The second novel starts where the first novel left off, in the Tailfingen displaced person's (DP) camp, with Magrete wishing to immigrate to Australia. What surprises me is that although France was the occupying power in the region of Tailfingen, France and its colonies never took in their DPs, even though they were a signatory to the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). Why?
KG: France was an unusual occupying power. Russia, Britain and America never capitulated to the Nazi regime, whereas the French did and yet, America insisted at the Yalta conference that France would be the fourth occupying power. Of course, the French were allotted the smallest region, the region that straddled the Austrian, German and Swiss borders to that of France. The French were arrogant, and ruled in that manner. Although a signatory to the IRO, the French wouldn't take in DP refugees, who they assumed aided and abetted the Nazis in occupying France.
Allied Occupation Zones.
M-T: We discover that Magrete wants to immigrate to Australia and convinces George to do so. What surprised me is that Arthur Calwell is the Australian Minister for Immigration in the Chifley government, who signs off on accepting 10,000 refugees per year from continental Europe as well as creating a scheme in which British families only pay ten pounds to immigrate to Australia. Why was the Labor government so generous?
Arthur Calwell, Australian Minister for Immigration in the Chifley government, a Ministry of his own making.
KG: Australia had a near death experience when the Japanese occupied Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea). The Labor party in Australia decided they needed a bigger population to survive any future attacks (i.e. populate or perish!) Remember, the Cold War had begun and so there were real concerns whether another world war would erupt in the not-too-distant future. Australia was an American ally and the Australian Labor Government was acutely aware that China lined up with the USSR. The struggle between capitalism and communism had all the hallmarks of the beginning of the end, since the USSR had nuclear weaponry as did the USA and Britain. Calwell was sympathetic to the harsh living conditions of DPs in Europe and so he made available places for some of them to immigrate to Australia on compassionate grounds.
M-T: The other issue that fascinates me that emerges in your novel is that the Australian bureaucracy was initially discriminating against Jewish immigration. Why? The holocaust was extensively publicised after the war as it provided direct evidence that the Nazi regime was evil!
KG: The evidence for anti-Jewish discrimination by Australian government officials is more circumstantial than what has been officially documented. Jews occupied government positions in many of the communist countries and so it was easier to suspect Jews as being left leaning, if not card carrying communists. It's tragic that they were murdered by the Nazis during the war and then shunned by countries, like Australia, immediately after the war, because governments feared their entry could not only be a security risk, but also create a bulwark against capitalism. The Jews couldn't win either way immediately after the war! It was only their push for the creation of Israel that gave them any sort of hope to be removed from Europe in a timely fashion, since most countries, like Canada and the USA had strict restrictions on who they would accept.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7th November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka. After the Bolsheviks came to power, Trotsky became the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
M-T: Magrete's family arrived in Australia and she was separated from them, because her youngest child, Francis, was ill and so when she was finally reunited with her family in Bonegilla (an immigration camp in Victoria, Australia) she needed to leave for Melbourne to meet with Helmut Gruen (who was now known as Howard Green, since 'Gruen' is German for 'Green').
Bonegilla – Victoria 1949-50.
M-T: Gruen was the CEO of her first husband's family company, von Appen Pty Ltd, and Magrete begins a new journey in regaining her wealth with the help of Gruen. What fascinates me about Magrete is that she's multi-dimensional: mother, lover, wife, strategist, manager, and business owner. Female characters are often portrayed in films, plays and novels as mono dimensional: that is, they are brilliant at only one aspect of life, whereas Magrete is good at everything she touches. Wouldn't that bother the reader as being a tad unrealistic?
KG: It does add to the complexity of the novel. However, I can point to any number of novels who have the main male character as being multi-dimensional. There are geniuses in this world, and moreover, not all of them are men! Magrete is one of them. They don't have to be academic or win the Noble Prize, as Madam Curie did! Too often we think of geniuses to be evily flawed (Moriarty) or masterly unflawed (Robert Langdon). Magrete is neither rather she's just extremely gifted! She's untruthful when she has to be, and tells the truth when she needs to! In other words, she is extremely talented, but realistically so, since she does exhibit flaws in her character at various points in her life in both novels.
Robert Langdon in, The Da Vinci Code, is masterly unflawed.
M-T: Anna visits Magrete in Melbourne and re-establishes their relationship, but in doing so, Anna has developed her own interests in life: she remains childless and is into fashion. Is there an alternative universe going on here? Magrete has children and hates fashion. Is Anna Magrete's opposite: that is, if Magrete is a positive print is Anna the negative print?
KG: Not really! Even to this day couples in wealthier countries choose to have children to cement their relationship. Sure they no longer have six kids, because contraception is now widely in use. However, many couples want two, and of different sex. Not to have children in the early 1950s was seen as a major flaw: physically, emotionally and intellectually for the wife and rarely for her husband. Remember, even to this day every religion still has procreation at the front and centre of its religion. Magrete has children, because of her physiology. On the other hand, Anna is childless because of her circumstance, which is undefined in the second novel whether it's due to her physiology or due to her husband's or both. However, the fact that Anna remains childless has real ramifications for Magrete and Anna in the third novel of the trilogy.
Note: The graph displays that having no children is the least preferred option, whereas having two children is the most preferred option.
M-T: Magrete acquires new businesses, is in constant contact with Howard Green, makes new friendships, such as Frieda and Helen and many others, and finally as George and she drift apart, she meets the man of her dreams - Christian! Christian escorts Magrete's eldest child, Ilse, to the State Banquet that was hosted for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royale Ballroom in Melbourne (Australia). It's a coming of age scene for Ilse. Why are Australians then and to this day besotted by Royalty?
Royal Visit to Australia in 1954.
KG: Personally I don't get it! What, with Prince Andrew sleeping with a groomed teenager and with the Royal split by Meagan and Harry, I personally believe that the British royals are on the wane in Britain if not elsewhere. Unlike the current state of the British Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth's first visit to our shores as a young Monarch was a huge success and so the novel reflects that success. Schools had the day off and students and adults alike lined the streets in Melbourne to get a five-second glimpse of her and Prince Philip as their motorcade rushed past.
The Victorian banquet was the highlight of their trip, not only for Victorians, but also for the rest of the country. For Ilse, and for society in general at that time it was a real honour to get an invitation, since only the privileged few received one.
MT: Once again, I've purposely not dwelt on too many incidents in the novel, because I don't want to reveal too much of the storyline. What I did find intriguing was the ending, since it creates a pathway to the third novel in the trilogy.
Thank you for revealing some intriguing aspects underpinning your novel. I hope the critics like it!
KG: So do I! Thank you once again Marie-Therese.
Art Quill Studio is the Education Division of Art Quill & Co Pty Ltd. I'm a director of the parent company, and I also head Art Quill Studio.
The parent company and its division, Art Quill Studio, mainly focusses on artistic endeavours, especially in the area of ArtCloth and ArtCloth Installations, Commissioned Artworks, Fabric Lengths, Wearable Art and Prints on Paper etc. However, the parent company, Art Quill & Co Pty Ltd, also publishes artist printmakers' books (e.g. Not in My Name and Beyond the Fear of Freedom).
Limited Edition: A total of 10 editions only, five of which are held in the collections of: University of Queensland Library (6/10), National Library of Australia (7/10), University of Sydney Library (8/10), State Library of New South Wales (9/10) and NSW Parliamentary Library (10/10).
Recommended retail price: AUstralian Dollar (AUD) $1550.00 (plus shipping).
Editions for sale: 2/10, 3/10, 4/10 and 5/10.
ISBN 0 646 42979 5
Limited Edition: A total of 15 editions, seven of which are held in the collections of: Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis (USA) (9/15), Beau Beausoleil (USA) (10/15), Department of Art & Design, University of Western England, Bristol, UK (11/15), The National Library of Australia (12/15), State Library of NSW (13/15), University of Sydney Library (14/15) and NSW Parliamentary Library (15/15).
Recommended retail price: AUD $2,000 (plus shipping).
Editions for sale: 2/15, 3/15, 4/15, 5/15, 6/15, 7/15 and 8/15.
ISBN 978-0-9873013-7
The company has recently published a puzzle solver that is available for purchase from the company.
Recommended retail price: AUD $14.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-1-4
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales and NSW Parliamentary Library.
The company has recently published the first novel in the trilogy titled - 4 Steps To Freedom. The novel has been set in a historical context in Germany between 1935 to 1949. The first novel in the trilogy can be ordered via a retail bookstore such as booktopia or directly from the distributor: John Reed Books.
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-2-1
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales, NSW Parliamentary Library, East Gippsland Shire Library (Vic), Monaro Regional Libraries (Bombala, NSW) and Cessnock City Library (NSW).
To read my interview with Kalle Gayn about his first novel in the trilogy, click on the following link: 4 Steps to Freedom.
The company has recently published Kalle Gayn's second novel in the trilogy and it is titled, 'Reign of the Mother.'
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-3-8
In the collection of the following libraries: National Library of Australia, University of Sydney Library, State Library of New South Wales and the NSW Parliamentary Library.
Recommended retail price: AUD $24.99 (plus shipping).
ISBN 978-0-9873013-3-8
Both novels have been written so they can be read independently of each other. However, reading both novels will yield a greater insight into the main character of the trilogy, Magrete.
I was involved as a proofreader as well as being the design and layout artist of '4 Steps to Freedom' and 'Reign of the Mother' and so the author, Kalle Gayn, has dedicated both novels to me. I'm hardly an unbiased interviewer!
Today's post is an interview that I conducted with the author about his second novel in the trilogy.
I hope you enjoy it!
Marie-Therese Wisniowski
PS. If you wish to send an email to the author, Kalle Gayn, email the author at: Kalle Gayn.
Reign of the Mother
Author Interview: Kalle Gayn
M-T: Welcome back to my blogspot Kalle, and thank you for dedicating both of your novels to me.
KG: Thank you for interviewing me on your blogspot again, Marie-Therese! The dedications reflect your hard work in bringing these two novels into fruition.
M-T: We need to reflect on the first novel in the trilogy in order to place the second novel in its proper context.
Magrete Holweg lost her first husband, Herbert von Appen, prior to WWII. She was pregnant at the time with his child, Ilse, when he died. Herbert was a Nazi and an acquaintance of Himmler. Her second husband, George Nagy, was a good friend of Herbert von Appen. George and Magrete married late in 1943. George Nagy led a research team at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry under the directorship of Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Otto Hahn.
When the Institute moved from Berlin to Tailfingen (a small village on the German-Swiss border) George relocated his family there.
M-T: Throughout the war Magrete was harbouring a Jewess, Anna, under the guise as her servant and so she saved Anna's life from the Nazi holocaust. Anna, after the war, met an American intelligence officer Captain Euguene Gould, who she later married. Just prior to Anna and Eugene leaving for America, Anna hated Magrete because of Anna's misheld belief that Magrete was responsible for Anna's Aunt's murder early in the war. On the day that Eugene and Anna were leaving Tailfingen for America, Anna discovered that she had got it wrong and so their friendship was rekindled.
Do you wish to add to what I have revealed so far?
KG: Only that Magrete had three children to her second husband, George, namely, Elisabeth, Eva and Francis with Francis being the youngest. Nevertheless, Ilse, the eldest of Magrete's children was the first child George had parented and so he had a special affection for her, even though she was not his child.
M-T: The first novel, 4 Steps to Freedom, has been characterized by East Gippsland Regional Library (Vic), Monaro Regional Libraries (Bombala, NSW), and by Cessnock City Library (NSW) as: Women (Fiction), Female Friendship (Fiction), Australia (Fiction), Germany (Fiction) and lastly, Historical Fiction. Do you agree with these categorisations of your first novel in the trilogy?
KG: I do! However, to give the reader a more concrete feel for the first two novels in the trilogy, I would put them in the genre of a 'Historical Literary Fiction' and so in the same genre as Dr Zhivago. I'm not claiming that my first two novels in the trilogy are of the same calibre, rather I am asserting that my characters are placed in a non-fiction historical context that they have no control over, and so both novels centre on how these characters react to the reality that they are immersed in.
M-T: The second novel starts where the first novel left off, in the Tailfingen displaced person's (DP) camp, with Magrete wishing to immigrate to Australia. What surprises me is that although France was the occupying power in the region of Tailfingen, France and its colonies never took in their DPs, even though they were a signatory to the International Refugee Organisation (IRO). Why?
KG: France was an unusual occupying power. Russia, Britain and America never capitulated to the Nazi regime, whereas the French did and yet, America insisted at the Yalta conference that France would be the fourth occupying power. Of course, the French were allotted the smallest region, the region that straddled the Austrian, German and Swiss borders to that of France. The French were arrogant, and ruled in that manner. Although a signatory to the IRO, the French wouldn't take in DP refugees, who they assumed aided and abetted the Nazis in occupying France.
M-T: We discover that Magrete wants to immigrate to Australia and convinces George to do so. What surprised me is that Arthur Calwell is the Australian Minister for Immigration in the Chifley government, who signs off on accepting 10,000 refugees per year from continental Europe as well as creating a scheme in which British families only pay ten pounds to immigrate to Australia. Why was the Labor government so generous?
KG: Australia had a near death experience when the Japanese occupied Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea). The Labor party in Australia decided they needed a bigger population to survive any future attacks (i.e. populate or perish!) Remember, the Cold War had begun and so there were real concerns whether another world war would erupt in the not-too-distant future. Australia was an American ally and the Australian Labor Government was acutely aware that China lined up with the USSR. The struggle between capitalism and communism had all the hallmarks of the beginning of the end, since the USSR had nuclear weaponry as did the USA and Britain. Calwell was sympathetic to the harsh living conditions of DPs in Europe and so he made available places for some of them to immigrate to Australia on compassionate grounds.
M-T: The other issue that fascinates me that emerges in your novel is that the Australian bureaucracy was initially discriminating against Jewish immigration. Why? The holocaust was extensively publicised after the war as it provided direct evidence that the Nazi regime was evil!
KG: The evidence for anti-Jewish discrimination by Australian government officials is more circumstantial than what has been officially documented. Jews occupied government positions in many of the communist countries and so it was easier to suspect Jews as being left leaning, if not card carrying communists. It's tragic that they were murdered by the Nazis during the war and then shunned by countries, like Australia, immediately after the war, because governments feared their entry could not only be a security risk, but also create a bulwark against capitalism. The Jews couldn't win either way immediately after the war! It was only their push for the creation of Israel that gave them any sort of hope to be removed from Europe in a timely fashion, since most countries, like Canada and the USA had strict restrictions on who they would accept.
M-T: Magrete's family arrived in Australia and she was separated from them, because her youngest child, Francis, was ill and so when she was finally reunited with her family in Bonegilla (an immigration camp in Victoria, Australia) she needed to leave for Melbourne to meet with Helmut Gruen (who was now known as Howard Green, since 'Gruen' is German for 'Green').
M-T: Gruen was the CEO of her first husband's family company, von Appen Pty Ltd, and Magrete begins a new journey in regaining her wealth with the help of Gruen. What fascinates me about Magrete is that she's multi-dimensional: mother, lover, wife, strategist, manager, and business owner. Female characters are often portrayed in films, plays and novels as mono dimensional: that is, they are brilliant at only one aspect of life, whereas Magrete is good at everything she touches. Wouldn't that bother the reader as being a tad unrealistic?
KG: It does add to the complexity of the novel. However, I can point to any number of novels who have the main male character as being multi-dimensional. There are geniuses in this world, and moreover, not all of them are men! Magrete is one of them. They don't have to be academic or win the Noble Prize, as Madam Curie did! Too often we think of geniuses to be evily flawed (Moriarty) or masterly unflawed (Robert Langdon). Magrete is neither rather she's just extremely gifted! She's untruthful when she has to be, and tells the truth when she needs to! In other words, she is extremely talented, but realistically so, since she does exhibit flaws in her character at various points in her life in both novels.
M-T: Anna visits Magrete in Melbourne and re-establishes their relationship, but in doing so, Anna has developed her own interests in life: she remains childless and is into fashion. Is there an alternative universe going on here? Magrete has children and hates fashion. Is Anna Magrete's opposite: that is, if Magrete is a positive print is Anna the negative print?
KG: Not really! Even to this day couples in wealthier countries choose to have children to cement their relationship. Sure they no longer have six kids, because contraception is now widely in use. However, many couples want two, and of different sex. Not to have children in the early 1950s was seen as a major flaw: physically, emotionally and intellectually for the wife and rarely for her husband. Remember, even to this day every religion still has procreation at the front and centre of its religion. Magrete has children, because of her physiology. On the other hand, Anna is childless because of her circumstance, which is undefined in the second novel whether it's due to her physiology or due to her husband's or both. However, the fact that Anna remains childless has real ramifications for Magrete and Anna in the third novel of the trilogy.
M-T: Magrete acquires new businesses, is in constant contact with Howard Green, makes new friendships, such as Frieda and Helen and many others, and finally as George and she drift apart, she meets the man of her dreams - Christian! Christian escorts Magrete's eldest child, Ilse, to the State Banquet that was hosted for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royale Ballroom in Melbourne (Australia). It's a coming of age scene for Ilse. Why are Australians then and to this day besotted by Royalty?
KG: Personally I don't get it! What, with Prince Andrew sleeping with a groomed teenager and with the Royal split by Meagan and Harry, I personally believe that the British royals are on the wane in Britain if not elsewhere. Unlike the current state of the British Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth's first visit to our shores as a young Monarch was a huge success and so the novel reflects that success. Schools had the day off and students and adults alike lined the streets in Melbourne to get a five-second glimpse of her and Prince Philip as their motorcade rushed past.
The Victorian banquet was the highlight of their trip, not only for Victorians, but also for the rest of the country. For Ilse, and for society in general at that time it was a real honour to get an invitation, since only the privileged few received one.
MT: Once again, I've purposely not dwelt on too many incidents in the novel, because I don't want to reveal too much of the storyline. What I did find intriguing was the ending, since it creates a pathway to the third novel in the trilogy.
Thank you for revealing some intriguing aspects underpinning your novel. I hope the critics like it!
KG: So do I! Thank you once again Marie-Therese.
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