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The Grass Beyond The Door is based on a true story: Lucy Lightfoot was born in the early 19th Century on the Isle of Wight in the south of England. She was well known in her village for her extreme obsession with the 14th century crusader Sir Edward Estur, whose carved effigy lay in St. Olave's Church in the village of Gatscombe.
On June 13, 1831, during the severest storm in the history of the Island, a lightning bolt struck the church shortly after Lucy had been observed going inside. Sir Edward's dagger was shattered, the jewel from its hilt was gone -- and there was not a trace to be found of Lucy Lightfoot. For two years her grieving family searched for her, but she had vanished from the face of the earth. Her disappearance became a local legend, a mystery that would never be solved ... until 34 years later, when a newly discovered 14th century manuscript revealed an incredible story.
This is where The Grass Beyond The Door begins.
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Cicely Adams Veighey spent her early childhood in the tiny seaside town of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Tales of smuggling, hauntings and magnificently heroic shipwreck rescues - the stuff of local legend - inspired endless games of pirates, Roundheads and Cavaliers, and smugglers and coastguards, played on the beaches, on the common or, during inclement weather, the dungeons of Henry the VIII's old castle. She married David Veighey, a Northern Irishman, in 1937. After his discharge from the British army in 1948, they emigrated from Ulster to Canada with their three small children and settled in Windsor, Ontario, where she still lives. editor@frontenachouse.com
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The story Cicely weaves is entertaining and historically correct. Her writing style flows and keeps one turning the pages... -- Valerie Walker, Author
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- PublisherFrontenac House Ltd.
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0968490301
- ISBN 13 9780968490303
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages199
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. J.W. Waterhouse (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. These 197 pages of fiction begin with an actual historical event in 1831. The locale was the Isle of Wight, and the lead figure was Lucy lightfoot. Read more about : Eustache l' Mesurier, Order of the Sword, King's ushers, Father Giorgio, Daphne Fielden, goose pinion, ninny hammer, and Pool of Bethesda. UNillustrated -historical mystery. It does have one b/w (think: setting) map - covers Isle of Wight to Cyprus. Cond : Paper wrapper is rusty brown.with straw coloured lettering. Front cover artwork shows a young woman drinking from a bowl - we see sailing ships behind her. Volume is bright and crisp. No names, no marks, no tears. Clean. Collectible !! Quote (p.57) : " After the various companies were lined up in their appoinrted places, the Regent, Prince Hugh of Antioch, rode out to review the host. It was a dazzling spectacle. Each noble lord, in full panoply, his armour brightly gleamong beneath a tambard magnificently embroidered with his family crest, sat astride his elegantly caparisoned destrier, in ._._._. . " Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 011015
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