Nor All Thy Tears

About the Book

The residents of Camlow Close did not realise that their modern estate was built on the site of a medieval castle. Two sisters figured it out when their teacher joined the local archaeological society and told them that the population was almost wiped out by the Black Death of the fourteenth century.

Meg, the younger sister already knew this, as she had lived in those times. Of course, at first she thought that she was just having bad dreams, but her knowledge of those times was so detailed that it could only mean one thing - reincarnation!

Susan, her sister, had to contend with a modern plague, meningitis. Fortunately, modern medicine enabled her to make a complete recovery and realise her ambition of playing the clarinet in a famous orchestra.

About the Author

Evelyn Sefton was born in Liverpool in 1924. Having trained as a nurse and qualified as a midwife in London just as the war ended, she was granted a four year commission in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, serving mostly in Germany. Married to an army officer, she lived with him in Germany, Belgium, malta and many places in southern England, and had four children: two boys and two girls. They finally settled in a village near Didcot, where her husband was last posted.

The author then trained as a health visitor, working until retirement in Oxfordshire and Aberystwyth and, now widowed, is living on a smallholding in west Wales with her eldest daughter and many dogsd, sheep and two ponies.

Writing stories for her two grandchildren, the author then had the idea for The Brooch. Later, horrified by the situation in Northern Ireland, The Rose garden was created. In her third novel, Nor All Thy Tears, the author has returned to her theme of reincarnation to weave a fascinbating tale of life in two similar, but contrasting worlds. It was inspired by Philip Ziegler's The Black Death.