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Gender Female
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction The working title of the novel is MACAULEY'S HOUSE - though Jack Macauley himself has been dead for more than twenty years when the story opens. Here is an extract from the early pages: " ... The big gaunt old mansion they call Macauley's house had already stood for more than three hundred years by the time Jack Macauley came along. His was very much a twentieth century connection: he came there late in the house's life and stayed but briefly, so that his having given his name to it can only be seen to be one of those curious accidents of history for which there is no real accounting. Ask any of the older locals about Jack Macauley today however, and you will see them smile. Those at least of them who don't scowl, and tell you that the man was an upstart, who brought nothing but disgrace and scandal to the village. The old house still bears his name, for all that. Which makes people ask themselves sometimes if after all it isn't the meek, but the disgraceful - the upstarts and scandal-makers - who most of all inherit the earth; or who are at any rate remembered longest when everything else has gone..."
Favorite Movies The Third Man, A Man for all Seasons, The Lion in Winter, Anne of the Thousand Days, Out of Africa, Toy Story, Anything with Al Pacino, Paul Newman or Robert Redford...
Favorite Music Mozart, Bach, the Beatles
Favorite Books All of Henry James and most of Dickens. Some of Virginia Woolf, some of Balzac. And of Scott Fitzgerald only The Great Gatsby