Bøger af Maggie Payne

Maggie Payne's third book Buntings ‿ Tales from the Till is a delightful recollection of memories from 30 years of service at the well-established and popular family shop, Buntings ‿ the High Class Grocer and Delicatessen, in Alcester, Warwickshire. Working alongside colourful characters and serving customers from all walks of life ‿ the rich, the poor, the young and the old ‿ Maggie discloses to the reader what really goes on behind the till. Through both amusing and poignant anecdotes, the author illustrates everyday life in a busy family shop of a bustling town. Maggie reveals how working alongside the Bunting family, in the hub of the community, has shaped her into the person she is today.

Sir Thomas Wallace of Scotland inherited the family clipper ship business upon the death of his parents during a storm in the South China Sea. He was six years old. Raised by his bachelor Uncle Cameron Wallace, he learned everything about sailing and navigation as he sailed the five oceans and seven seas. As an adult, Sir Thomas married and fathered twin sons; his wife died in childbirth. The twins were raised by their maternal grandparents in London. Sir Thomas discovers a French Land Grant, granted to his grandfather prior to the Louisiana Purchase, and passed down to future generations. He sets sail for America and New Orleans. Finding the land described in the Land Grant, covered with hundred-year-old moss-covered oak trees and fields of purple irises, he travels to Washington to lay claim to the land. Sir Thomas receives title from the American President, and decides this will be his family home. Deploring slavery, Sir Thomas names his home Three Oaks Farm. The farm is a reflection of a man's worth and yet, Sir Thomas has so little time to cherish Three Oaks. His surviving heir, young Thomas, marries and makes Three Oaks his home until tragedy comes along and takes all he loves away… or did it?About the AuthorThe novel Quantum of Riches is the first endeavor by Maggie Payne in the historical fiction genre. Some of the historical parts of the story originate from the author's grandmother. The Payne family emigrated from Scotland in the 1800s settling in the Kentucky Territory. Maggie Payne was born in Kentucky in 1869, five years after the Civil War. In 2016, her granddaughter, at the age of eighty-two, began her novel, Quantum of Riches under her grandmother's name. Maggie moved to South Louisiana at age five, where she finished high school and received bachelor's degrees in political science and office management. After forty-five years of raising her family and work, Maggie began oil painting and served on several political boards. Her love for southern Louisiana is reflected in this novel.

This second book by Maggie Payne is a collection of fond reminiscences and anecdotes about her life growing up and living in the small town of Alcester in Warwickshire from the 1950s onward. The book describes what it is about Alcester with its people and traditions that makes it so unique, with plenty of scrapes that Maggie gets herself into along the way! A well-known figure in the town, Maggie is a former Alcester Mayoress and Chairman of Alcester in Bloom and these lighthearted memoirs are intended to put a smile on the face of the reader as they take a walk down memory lane with her.