This Life of Grace by John Symons
This Life of Grace is a history and a biography. It tells the story of Grace Jarrold, the youngest of eight children, who lived for almost ninety years in the village of Plympton in Devon. It also tells the story of the village over the last century, beginning with the Great War of 1914-1918 and school life at that time.
"In his second volume, This Life of Grace, John Symons tells of what happened when his mother met his father, Jack, on leave from the Indian Army, and married him twelve days laterA lady blessed with a considerable memory, wisely allows her son to tell much of it in her own words. From her early days in a small draper's shop to her grieving for her husband and her struggle to make a new life, her son John not only gives us a striking portrait of his mother but at the same time paints a fascinating picture of life and times in what was then the village of Plympton where she lives for almost 90 years." 20111025 "There is humour here, but only the extremely hard-hearted will fail to come close to tears as well as laughter when reading John Symons's moving, soul-searching account of the lives and deaths of his mum and dad." The Cornishman 20111124
John Symons was educated at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. Fluent in Russian, he has made a study of the life of Lenin, and is currently working on a book about the collapse of the Soviet Union. After Cambridge, he worked in the Treasury and other government departments; since then he has been an executive and life coach and an adjudicator in disputes between staff and management.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856832833 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856832839 |
| Title | This Life of Grace |
| Author | John Symons |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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