If you have a "Huguenot" ancestor, then this exciting historic novel which bring the reader directly into the trauma faced by the French Protestants in the 1600s.
The first book in the "Huguenot Trilogy" was published in 2007 "Escape to Freedom". The second book, "Follow the Wind", introduces the reader to both new and old characters that readers have enjoyed.
It is 1687. Although a group of Huguenots refugees from Provence have skillfully escaped from France into "free" Switzerland, they are pursued by an avenging troop of disguised French Dragoons determined to assassinate key members of the party.
Feeling helpless, a new character, young Susanne Reyne, watched her family murdered during a "safe" border escape into Switzerland. Now, penniless in Geneva, she is desperate until she recognizes a neighbour from Provence, Pierre Jaubert, in Geneva streets and attempts to seek his aid.
Join the group as, swept by the tidal wave of refugees, they are attacked continuously while searching through Europe - through the cantons of Switzerland, down the Rhine River and eventually ending up into the Netherlands – still searching for a "future".
Here in Holland, the group is both terrified and excited, as fate throws a daring challenge - an offer of farm land and freedom in darkest Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
Never having been to sea before, the group journey on a small Dutch galleon, the China to the bottom of the world.
Kenn Joubert was born in South Africa but hitchhiked around most of Europe. Then decided to look at Canada. On the winter prairie, he fell in love with a pony-tailed girl; raised a family and is now a Canadian citizen of over 50 years!
As a High School "drop-out", in 1967, he obtained a Degree in Education at Calgary University and returned to obtain a Masters in Clinical Psychology. He thoroughly enjoyed working as a "Community Psychologist" in Western Canada.
Kenn has always sought challenges! In the early 1950s, he decided to change careers and answered an unusual career advertisement. Later, he received a "letter of acceptance" from the Canadian Space Agency as a "Candidate" for Astronaut! After undergoing many physical examinations and tasks, he was disappointed to receive his letter of rejection when the original 3,700 applicants were cut from 600 to the final 60 candidates. However, he is still proud of the fact that he "at least tried"!
Kenn is a long-time member of the BC Federation of Writers and the South African Writers Circle. He is a "Life Member" of the Huguenot Society of South Africa and is a recognized Genealogist and historic researcher.
In 2006, he published his first book in the "Huguenot Trilogy", "Escape to Freedom" with Trafford in Victoria BC. The novel has been received with enthusiasm all around the world.
Kenn is living a retired life with his wife, Fern, in a lovely cottage overlooking Gulf Islands on Vancouver Island BC Canada.