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Forever Bluebirds

by D.E. Worsdell

378 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-2379; ISBN 1-4120-7483-5; US$24.50, C$24.50, EUR16.74, £12.65

The story of my ancestors in the new world, leading to my own story up to the present.

About the Book

Beginning with the story of my ancestors coming from France and Ireland to the new world. How they settled in Nova Scotia, made friends with the local Indians, and how they were uprooted by English soldiers, burned out and scattered. Taken on ships to far places, then eventually finding their way back.

How family members accepted the English presence, and their life after the 1775 war. My grandparents life in the late 1800's. My parents short marriage and my birth, followed by my own growing-up years, being rejected by my mother who eventually placed me with her French relatives, who, in turn, also rejected me. My eventual marriage during the Second World War, which led to brief years of life in England.

On coming to the United States in 1948, and our years of working and raising our family.

Finally, this book concerns our retiring years in Florida and many years of marriage, all of which were spent with the word "Bluebird" engraved inside my wedding ring, and kept close ever since our wedding day.

About the Author

Dorothy E. Worsdell started writing plays when only 13 while still a student at St. Charles' school in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Sisters there thought them good enough to produce them on stage.

It was several years before she could settle down to more writing, in the form of poetry and writing stage shows which met with some success, her most successful show being "The Spirit of Christmas" in 1978 in Foxboro, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Since then, several articles were written which appeared in Church publications and the local newspaper, "The Foxboro Reporter". Her poem "The Wedding" was accepted and printed in a book of poetry called A Far Off Place, printed by The National Library of Poetry. She received the Editor's Choice Award for outstanding achievement in Poetry which was presented by The National Library of Poetry in 1994.

She and her husband retired to Florida in 1986 where more winning articles were printed in The Tampa Tribune, November 4th, 1997, and the St. Petersburg Times, July 5th, 1986 with an article on seeing The Statue of Liberty.

Forever Bluebirds is her first book written in fact or fiction. This is the story of her family, including her own story from her birth to life in Nova Scotia, then England during the second World War, finally coming, returning to the land of her birth, the United State of America.

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