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    The Southerly Curse (Before the Poet's Trap)
    The Southerly Curse (Before the Poet's Trap)
    The Southerly Curse (Before the Poet's Trap)
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    The Southerly Curse (Before the Poet's Trap)

    By Sylvie Gallimore

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    Adam Southerly, a young man who only realises the extent of his father’s depravity after his parents are killed in a coaching accident, always knew his father was a tyrant, but did not realise the extent of his evil. With the help of his loyal manservant, Martin, Adam spends several years trying to right all the wrongs of his father, but the task becomes overwhelming. Adam is only a man and one man can only do so much. There are so many people waiting for him to fail, calling him the spawn of the Devil. He takes a wrong turn himself and finds he has reason to doubt his own sanity. Finally, he lets down the very people he wanted to protect but as he tells Martin, sometimes the people you least expect let you down.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Macauley Publishers
    Release dateJun 28, 2019
    ISBN9781528964326
    The Southerly Curse (Before the Poet's Trap)
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    Sylvie Gallimore

    Sylvie Gallimore was born in Bristol, England at the end of the 1940s. She has been married for over 50 years and is a mother of three sons and has four grandchildren, all boys. Both her parents were originally from Hampshire, an area in England that is close to her heart. Her latest book The Curse Is Lifted takes the reader to the places in Hampshire that she enjoyed visiting as a child and also in later life. The actual setting for the book, Netley Edge,  is fictional.  Like all writers, she has chosen to write about places she knows fairly well.

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