Gretta Curran Browne (Author of A Strange Beginning)

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Gretta Curran Browne I'll paraphrase Byron on this - the best thing is you can spend hours in the company of interesting people, yet remain alone and undisturbed.

On a more鈥辞谤别I'll paraphrase Byron on this - the best thing is you can spend hours in the company of interesting people, yet remain alone and undisturbed.

On a more practical note - some of us write to earn an income from our work, because we prefer writing to anything else - Dreamers, the lot of us - heads in the clouds lost in thoughts - give us a down-to-earth job and we'd get fired within a week!(less)

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Gretta. Your Byron series captured so much emotion! Empathy, anger at mother who spent her life tormenting and belittling a child she brought into the world, elation that such a child grew up to success, kindness, drive to succeed, a devout friend to most who befriended him. Yet, a man whose heart was shadowed by sorrow. How did you research an individual from that time period? How much time did that research t

Gretta Curran Browne Hi Patricia - initially 3 years research that resulted in the first 4 books - and then another two years in order to write about his years living abro鈥辞谤别Hi Patricia - initially 3 years research that resulted in the first 4 books - and then another two years in order to write about his years living abroad in Switzerland, Italy, and then Greece. (I feel now there is NOTHING about Byron I do not know)
Almost all of my research comes from Byron himself through his own papers, letters, diaries, journals - as well as from those of his closest friends -- and of course, some of the Byron Scholars at Cambridge.
Apart from the Scholars, I have ignored all sources of those that were not eye-witnesses to his life, or not physically THERE with Byron at the time
That is why I quote so much of their own actual letters etc to show all scenes are based on those given to me by the players themselves. I also spent time at his home of Newstead Abbey and was able to stand in his bedroom at the window and see the same views he saw at the time - and sit in his library etc - Newstead Abbey and its surrounding lakes and lands are so beautiful, so peaceful, and it has not changed at all since Byron lived there. (The mansion and vast grounds are now owned and looked after by the Nottinghamshire Trust). Annesley Hall, (where Mary C lived) is now sadly derelict, and gone to ruin, only the main structure remains.

The next book - Book 5 - is released on April 19th 2018 - because that is an official National Bank Holiday in Greece every year being "Byron's Day" when all parents are asked by the Greek Government to allow their children to spend some part of that day studying literature or drama in honour of the poet who has long been a "hero" in Greece, due to Byron's involvement in Greece's fight for Independence.
The final 2 books are published this summer of 2018.
Thank you so much for your appreciation of my work, Patricia, but I honestly think that half of the words come from Byron himself, as was he one who provided most of the material in the papers he left behind.(less)

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HAPPY 2014 EVERYONE

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So here we are again, at the end of another year, looking back and wondering what we would have done differently ... and certain we will be doing the same things all over again in 2014.

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Lord Byron (7 books)
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Ghosts In Sunlight (2 books)
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“What goes around, comes around - definitely!”
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“Hunger was the cruelest of life's afflictions; the slowest, most agonising. How could the politicians ever understand the plight of the hungry multitudes when their own bellies were always full? Thomas”
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“A man whose love for money had reached the point of mania. A man of rapacity whose love of money was only equalled by his lust for power. A man who loved to dominate by threats and menaces and terror.”
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“What goes around, comes around - definitely!”
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“Balfour paused to swat irritably at a fly near his face, and with that gesture Lachlan suddenly realised why he had been summoned, because he knew all of Balfour鈥檚 tricks. For all his pretended geniality, Colonel Balfour had the skill of a scorpion. He always started with a smile and flattery, paused to swat a fly ... then dished out the dirty work.”
― Gretta Curran Browne, By Eastern Windows

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“We are surrounded by story.”
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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
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