The Elephants' Child

By M L Eaton

It is 1954 and Melanie is six years old.

Moving with her parents to Bombay (now Mumbai), India, where her father has been posted to undertake a Civil Engineering project, she is anxious and unsettled and finds it difficult to make friends. But before long, entranced by the emotive beauty of her surroundings, she unexpectedly discovers the love and friendship that banish her loneliness.
At times sad and poignant but always enthralling and exhilarating, this is a story that captures the wonders of India as seen through the eyes and imagination of a young English girl.
"Having read this novella in one sitting as it was, quite literally, 'unputdownable'; I would love to recommend it most highly to other readers. The prose is almost poetic, if that observation is allowed in technical English language terms! It is strongly evocative of the sounds, smells and culture of the Indian sub continent in the dying days of the British influence. Sad in parts, ultimately it was a most uplifting story of a child's awakening to the world outside her sheltered existence. Elephants, don't we all have an affinity with them? They seem to have the best of human traits and none of the worst! The child's understanding of, identification with, love for and enjoyment of the elephants, particularly her 'special' one, tugged at my heartstrings. This little book will remain with me for a long time, read it yourself, soon." Reader's Review

• Language: English
• Publisher: M L Eaton
• Release date: Apr 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310629341

M L Eaton

Retired from legal practice and semi-retired from holistic therapy - although she still teaches Reiki and other workshops - Marion lives close to the sea in the beautiful East Sussex countryside with a long-suffering husband, a lazy saluki and an urge to write into the small hours. I’ve wanted to write for as long as I can remember. But Life intervened and I only managed to complete my first novel when I was over sixty. My first career – as a lawyer – began in the nineteen seventies when there were very few women in the legal profession of England and Wales, and the dice tended to be loaded against them! My first small office on Romney Marsh eventually extended until, after a number of changes, amalgamations and growth it evolved into one of the top 100 legal firms in England and Wales. My second career – in complementary health – began in 1994 when I qualified as a professional aromatherapist and also became a Usui Reiki Master Teacher. Over the years I have taught Reiki to hundreds of students. With my husband, also a lawyer, I ran a complementary health clinic in the Old Town of Hastings, East Sussex for several years. All forms of holistic health interest me but it is energy healing, in all its various facets and forms, which I find most fascinating and from which I can never quite retire.

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