The Adventures Of Rose

By Mary Bessenich

This is a story about a wonderful doll named Rose, who was created by a doll maker in Germany. Just before he put the finishing touches to the doll, he sewed a tiny heart into the cloth.
Her life story will tug at your heart strings as she experiences love from families in Germany, to sitting on shelves in a charity shop, tossed out for the garbage, drowning in Morocco and then finally ending up in a dolls’ hospital in Germany tattered and torn.
What happens next? That’s the burning question.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jul 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398452213

Mary Bessenich

Mary has spent most of her life living in Swansea, in Wales. Several years were spent living in Hamburg, in Germany, with her late husband, Heinz, and daughter, Anna, where her fascination with doll making began. Mary plays the organ, speaks fluent German, loves travelling abroad and is a prolific reader.

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The Adventures Of Rose

Mary Bessenich

Austin Macauley Publishers

The Adventures Of Rose

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

The Creation of Rose

Charlotte Rose’s first owner

The Charity Shop

The Rubbish Collector

HANS The doll maker

Marie

Charlotte

Jade Marie’s niece

The Day Rose Disappeared

STEFAN The doll maker’s son

Rose The Doll

Marie

Charlotte

ROSE The Doll

Stefan Son of the doll Maker

The Fortune teller in Marrakech

Marie

Stefan

Hans and Luisa Stefan’s Parents

Marie

Stefan

Puppenklinik Neukölln, Richardstrasse 99, 12044 Berlin

Hans, Luisa and Stefan

Stefan and Marie at the Primary School

Marie

Herr Schneider at the Dolls Hospital in Berlin

Marie and Stefan

Rose

The Wedding

Hans (The Doll Maker)

Twins

About the Author

Mary has spent most of her life living in Swansea, in Wales. Several years were spent living in Hamburg, in Germany, with her late husband, Heinz, and daughter, Anna, where her fascination with doll making began. Mary plays the organ, speaks fluent German, loves travelling abroad and is a prolific reader.

Dedication

I dedicate this book to the memory of

Captain Heinz Bessenich

1941-2004

without whom I would never have become acquainted with the beautiful country of Germany, spoken the language fluently and amassed a wealth of extraordinary memories.

You enabled me to write this book.

Thank you for everything

🌹

Copyright Information ©

Mary Bessenich 2022

The right of Mary Bessenich to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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ISBN 9781398452213 (ePub e-book)

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It was a wonderful morning in the beautiful old town of Rothenburg in Bavaria. Rothenburg was considered to be the quaintest place in all of Germany with its fairy-tale atmosphere of narrow cobbled streets, half-timbered houses, charming little shops and streets full of exquisite hanging baskets, offering a kaleidoscope of colour in all of its streets. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Hans threw back his bed covers, put on his clothes, and went downstairs into his workshop. Whilst he was waiting for the coffee to brew, Hans opened the windows of his double-fronted timber house and waved across the street to the violin maker Jacob, who was already hard at work in his workshop.

Jacob was twenty-six years old, two years older than Hans, and he also loved sitting by the open windows making his beautiful violins. Both Hans and Jacob were highly skilled craftsmen in their own right and both strived to attain perfection in all they created. When Jacob became a father to little Klara, Hans made a beautiful ceramic doll to celebrate her birth. He spent days and weeks creating the perfect doll for Jacob’s daughter and then when it was finally finished, he painted the name Klara,​ on the nape of its neck and underneath, the date she was born. Jacob was delighted at this unexpected show of friendship towards him and from that moment on both men enjoyed a gentle friendship, always shouting out Guten Morgen to each other every morning from their open windows.

The village was kept scrupulously