About the Author

Edmund Fairweather’s younger childhood was spent in playing on the banks of the River Bourne in Wiltshire before his family moved to the Surrey/Hants borders. An alumnus of Kingston University, he gained an honours degree in linguistics. Part of his younger life was spent abroad working in Paris, where amongst the emigrees and adventurers, there were tales, like leaves in wind, of runaway Nazis, East European nobles fleeing to exile, and ousted African leaders. He returned to England to work in commercial and residential property for much of his life, in and around Woking and Aldershot. He has two daughters and his family (including his grandchildren) all reside nearby in southern England. He follows the fortunes of Aldershot Town football club.