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Description: 'Past and Present' by Edward
Greenwood is a compulsively written and utterly readable account of the life of
a teacher and writer who is now in his ninth decade. The very first person who
read the book told Edward it was so intriguing he could not put it down and the
founder and head of The Conrad Press, which is now publishing the book, had the
same experience when he read it.
As Edward says: 'I have nine decades to look back on
and throughout almost all that time I've been passionately interested in people
and in history and in literature and in many other things. I think I have a
story to tell.'
'Past and Present' is indeed a riveting read,
full of a delight and appreciation of life and written so vividly that you
really do feel Edward is immersing you in all his life's experiences. He
describes his remarkable family, his beautiful mother, his admired brother
Bobby who was a flier killed in the Second World War, and his gifted elder
sister Edith who knew German and visited Germany in the fraught year 1933 when
Hitler took power.
Edward also writes about his boarding school
education, his life at Oxford University and his work as a factory inspector
and library cataloguer at the University of Keele. He also writes about his
long marriage to his beloved wife Barbara with great vividness and great
emotion, which he also brings to the suicide of his younger son Edward and his,
Edward's, experience of falling in love with a beautiful young Romanian woman
when he was in his eighties and then slowly having to face the unpleasant
reality that he had been the victim of a honey trap.
