Daughter of Catalonia (26 page)
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Authors: Jane MacKenzie
The towns of Collioure, Port Vendres, Céret and Amélie-les-Bains are beautiful and thriving places in Roussillon, France. The neighbouring village of Vermeilla, however, is as imaginary as all the people who live there.
The descriptions of life in 1930s, 1940s and 1950s France are as true as intense research and much listening to wonderful people can make them, and apologies are offered for any inaccuracies.
Research for this novel has taken me through countless websites, libraries and conversations with those who were there, but I must acknowledge one book which first set me creating this story in my mind, a
non-fiction
work which truly brings to life the world of Vichy France. Thanks therefore to Rosemary Bailey for her brilliant book
Love And War In The Pyrenees: A Story Of Courage, Fear And Hope
, 1939-1944.
My sincerest thanks also to Louis Baloffi, famously known as Petit Louis, and to Pierrette Périssoud, both of Collioure, for sharing with me so many memories of life from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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J
ANE
M
AC
K
ENZIE
has always had a love of languages and speaks fluent French. Much of her adult life has been spent travelling the world, teaching English and French everywhere from the Gambia to Papua New Guinea to Bahrain, and recently working for two years at CERN in Geneva. She now splits her time between her self-built house in Collioure, France and the Highlands of Scotland, where she has made her family home. She runs her own consultancy business, and is currently writing her second novel.
Daughter of Catalonia
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First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2014.
This ebook edition first published in 2014.
Copyright © 2014 by J
ANE
M
AC
K
ENZIE
The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–0–7490–1573–2
