A Place Called Nowhere

By Violetta Antcliff

Amanda has fought hard to keep her sanity, what she is experiencing is unbelievable. She is caught in a time loop from which she can’t escape. Somehow, she has traveled back to a time when the Second World War is still raging; food is short and on ration. Morale in the tiny hamlet of Nowhere, however, is high the; thought of losing the war

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing
• Release date: Mar 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781619503755

Violetta Antcliff

Violetta Antcliff has been a member of the Nottingham Writers' Club for over twenty years. A winner of numerous short story competitions, her work was area short listed in Waterstone's Wow Factor story competition. Took first prize in Nottingham County Council short story competition with a story called "Irish Mouse Tales," which was published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing as an eBook in July of 2012. She has had her poetry and short stories read on local radio. Violetta is a prolific writer of short fiction, having written and published more than 40 short stories with Gypsy Shadow.

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Contents

Copyright Page

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

About the Author

A Place called Nowhere

by

Violetta Antcliff

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Copyright © May 29,2017

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ISBN: 978-1-61950-375-5

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: July 4, 2017

Chapter 1

Amanda was ecstatic, she had finally got what she had worked seven long years for: a sabbatical. This was her reward for being a conscientious, hard-working employee. She had earned the paid time off, and was determined to enjoy every second of it.

She’d made arrangements for her house to be looked after whilst she was away. Tom Price, an odd job man she had employed on and off over the years, had agreed to look after the garden and his wife Florence, a comely woman, had said she would be only too happy to give an occasional flick of the duster around the house.

Satisfied there was nothing else she needed to attend to before she left on her year-long adventure, Amanda placed her cases in the boot of the car, waved farewell to the next door neighbours who had come outside to wish her a safe journey, and set off.

Not having made any advanced bookings, Amanda was in no rush to arrive anywhere on time. She would decide when it was time to look for a B&B to spend the night, when it suited her.

For the first time in a decade she had nothing planned; she was a free spirit, no longer at the beck and call of anyone. Free to come and go as she pleased, free to do what she wanted.

She was a divorcée; the breakup of her marriage had been unexpected and at the time had taken a lot out of her, but she’d weathered the storm and gotten over it. She was a fighter.

Tim Wellborn had been her first and only love, they had met and married within a year. Everyone had said it wouldn’t last, and they’d been right, it hadn’t.

At first, she had blamed herself for not seeing the break-up coming; all the signs had been there, she had just been too blind to see them.

His weekends away attending nonexistent conferences, working late most nights. And the nearest for ages there had been to anything like romance, had been a peck on the cheek when he left for the office in the morning. Yes, she should have seen it coming, but she hadn’t.

However, the divorce and share up of goods had been amicable and they remained friends.

And now it was all over, she realised it had been for the best; any love there had ever been between them had died a long, long time ago.

Amanda set off that morning