Laura's Child

By Robert Townsend

Laura's Child is book four in the continuing Laura comedy fantasy series. It is assumed that you know the background to all the main characters by now. My wife Laura gives birth to our first child, the mystical Red Moon Child of Arthurian prophesy. She is named Tammy after the song by Debbie Reynolds. When she is a toddler she develops a penchant for collecting animals and an obsession for playing Monopoly. All the while we are being stalked by a crackpot cult of half-wit Satanists with a nefarious plan to kidnap Laura. But when one of them abducts the child he soon falls foul of her magical powers and ends up in a psychiatric hospital with an addled mind. In the meantime we have a bizarre experience in a crappy night club which is raided by the drugs squad, Tammy adopts a dopey black rooster and a flatulent goat, and Debra wins a Miss Wet Tee Shirt competition, which of course goes to her head. Then Laura and Debra are taken hostage by the gang and the goat leads Vince and myself to rescue them. But our troubles are only just beginning. When we all flee to the local church to take refuge with the minister, only to have it laid siege to by a mob of crazed devil worshippers. It is left to the Red Moon Child to save the day. In the future there will be a fifth book to follow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Townsend
• Release date: Dec 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370407897

Robert Townsend

I was born in the village of Histon, which is just outside Cambridge, England, in December of 1959. When I was four years old and my younger brother was one the family moved to a house in Stevenage, Hertfordshire as my father had obtained a new and better paid job for Stevenage Borough Council as a Public Health Inspector. At the age of fourteen, while still at school, I became very interested in astronomy and stargazing. I obtained my first good proper astronomical telescope in 1976 for my sixteenth birthday. After leaving school I went to work for a small company making quality hand built astronomical telescopes at Astro-Systems in Luton. I was made redundant eight years later when the owner emigrated to America to work designing telescopes for Celestron Corporation. There followed a series of short term jobs that were only temporary. Later, I went to college and did a course in creative writing. I had already written several short stories with a science fiction/fantasy theme. This was followed by a romantic autobiographical account of some personal experiences called "Terpsichore's Fire". Later, I returned to fiction and in a flash of inspiration I hit on the idea for a full length comedy/fantasy/sexy book, and "Laura's New Boyfriend" was born. In the last ten years or so, when I get the time, this has been followed by three more full length books with the same comic characters, plus a few new ones. They are: "Laura's Wedding", "Laura's Baby" and "Laura's Child", I would like to see them published online and in paperback someday soon. I also have ideas for other comedy stories with different themes and characters, some of whom are based on real unusual and eccentric people I have met over the years. I also like doing wildlife photography, prehistoric model making, Chinese food and drinking real ales in country pubs. I live with my girlfriend Sarah in Stevenage and my star sign is Sagittarius. Robert Townsend, Astronomer and Author.

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