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Tales Of Whimsy and Fantasy
[Paperback - 2010]
jessica farquhar
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Publisher: Melrose Books | ISBN: 9781907040580 | Pages: 224
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Tales of Whimsy and Fantasy is a collection of 25 short stories, which combine credible situations and characters together with supernatural elements. Some of the stories seem to inhabit a twilight area between consciousness and dreaming, and there is a moral/ethical dimension to some of them, albeit presented gently and with good humour. Modern people and places are sometimes juxtaposed with characters from antiquity or mythology; the result is a feeling of continuity, and even simultaneity, of past, present, and future. An enchanted world of memorable personalities and distinctive places is revealed in this assemblage of stories.

About the Author

Jessica Farquhar (Mrs. J.F. Heyworth; 1919 - 2005), the mother of the writer of this biographical note (Martin Heyworth), was born and educated in Edinburgh (M.A. in Modern Languages, Edinburgh University, 1940). In late 1940 or early 1941, she moved to London and, from 1942 until early 1946, worked at Bletchley Park, translating decrypted Nazi military intercepts from German into English, and writing archival reports on wartime activities. Jessica Farquhar met my late father, Dr. Harry Heyworth (1915 - 2010), while they were both working at Bletchley Park; they were married in 1944. From 1947 until the end of 1953, my parents and I lived in Eastcote, Middlesex, and thereafter in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, where the author lived for the rest of her life. During the first half of the 1960s, Jessica Farquhar was a lecturer at the North Gloucestershire Technical College in Cheltenham, teaching English to foreign students. Her literary works date from the late 1960s - 1970, and comprise the 25 short stories published as Tales of Whimsy and Fantasy, as well as two detective novels (one of which, Fern in a Black Hand, was published by Melrose Books in 2009).

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