ALI KEILLY
The main character in the story is Eleanor, a young wife and Mother living in a small somewhat isolated village in Somerset. Her life is about to change in almost every respect, most of these changes are unexpected and out of her control.
To her it is all unsought; not only changing the routine and circumstances of her daily life but soon stirs up many things from her past she thought were long past . This includes the part her Mother has played in her life and the lives of her own parents, Eleanor’s Grandparents.
Eleanors cottage next to the woods.
The months that follow this disruption force her, to reassess her future, and her long denied psychic abilities. She must admit who she is, learn to be proud of her character that she has always hated.
She will need every talent she has to survive.
Step by step, a bigger mystery than she could ever imagine opens up, leading her into strange places and even stranger experiences. She discovers who she is, and where she came from.
So many unknown facts to discover, regarding herself, her family, and the entire viillage.
A location she is fated to be, called there from the past and needed to act for the future of all.
Uncovering these secrets, hidden dangers and obstacles is a mystery she must uncover. She must face herself, the parts she hates, if she is ever to uncover the truth and be her own person.
READ HOW LENA FIGHTS HER WAY TO BEING THE PERSON SHE SHOULD BE.
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The story : 'HIDDEN'
This and subsequent pages are discussing some of the story line, obviously I cannot give the plot away as it then becomes part of the Public Domain and as such can be used by anyone.
Neither can I give away the ending as it will spoil it for you, the reader. Yet, I hope to be able to give you snippets to wet your appetite.
Ali Keilly
The story is set in a small village in Somerset, pictured above. The era is the nineteen sixties, at a time when most small villages in the U.K. had its own railway station, and were perhaps more static as a community than many today.
Before the advent of Supermarkets, the village would have had a few small shops supplying such things as groceries, vegetables, sometimes a butcher, cobler or baker. Sometimes a community had its own small flour mill, and certainly most had access to a bakery nearby. This small village had both of those things, as well as a small mill for Fullers Earth, usued in cosmetics and such .
There were daily deliveries of milk, dairy products and newspapers to the door, with weekly 'tabs' or accounts kept for each household, paid at the end of each week.
The needs of the population was very well catered for, with deliveries of almost everything they needed.
Often,a mobile library came around once a week, or a fortnight, a weekly fresh fish van selling wet fish and shellfish. Often a fish and chip van which cooked in situ, visited every week . Ice cream vans were very popular and much looked forward to by local children, Each delivery would announce itself by dint of a bell or horn, calling the people to buy.
For anything other than food and the daily necessities such as clothes, furniture or larger items it was necessary to take a trip to the nearest large town by train bus or other means.Elecrical gadgets were utilitarian and few, with many small country places not having an electricity supply until the nineteen fifties. Life was relatively simple and went at a slower pace.
The River.
The river and its magical energies play a vital part in my story, but is in fact only a stream, but in formr centuries-who knows?. This watercourse changes character constantly as it flows from its underground source several miles away up to and beyond the village.it changed substantially over the years in depth, course and flow.
Today, in places it gurgles over pebbles and flowing weeds, with water as clear as glass, in others it runs deep, dark, and angry.
Its span crossed in various places by different bridges, built in a variety
of sizes, materials, and erected in different ages. Sometimes they cross water, which is slow and languid, or sometimes fast and urgent.
Each stretch attracts appropriate industry or business, cattle in the
quieter stretches, crops needing water or mills of various kinds in the faster or deeper spots. Water gives life and it can bring death.
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