Friday Fiction Feature – Purple Michaelmas by Patricia Hutson
Lorraine, I would like to thank you for
accepting my story Purple Michaelmas for your Friday Fiction Feature.
I have always enjoyed, writing, when our
children were little I used to invent stories for them. Most children when to bed with tales of
Sleeping Beauty etc. not mine. Because
we were living during the cold war era, I invented spies, and as we travelled
to Germany and Austria a great deal I was able to invent these characters.
It was an unexpected incident at the Border
post of Aachen, that really gave life to my stories. The car in front of us was stopped by Police
and we witnessed the arrest of the Bader - Meinhof a terrorist group that gave
even more life to my stories.
As our children were growing up I decided
that I should start writing stories for grown ups. I had to think what genre I would use as my
form of tale telling. I did not want Detective
Stories as apart from Agatha Christie I knew nothing about that world. It was a comment from my husband that put me
on the road to writing Purple Michaelmas/
Sitting in the beer garden at the Brau Haus
(the Hubertus in the book) he suggested I would a story linking England and
Germany together.
I spent quite a few
days trying to work out a scenario, eventually I came up with the idea. As a working a Medium, I had come to realise
that everyone is looking for that one thing that is very difficult to
find. That indefinable something, that
little bubble of hope and love.
I had my answer, so it was that Purple
Michaelmas was born. It is a love story,
but not like any other. It links body
and soul. I was terrified when I first put pen to paper, then remembered
something a well known writer had said: Write about what you know.
As I knew Germany and Austria really well,
our local Football Club and the German team I was able to weave their character together. The spiritual link cam from my own experiences
in my working life.
My tastes in reading are pretty catholic, I
love Lloyd C Douglas, James Hilton, H Rider Haggard and the Historian Ian
Wilson. I enjoy adventure stories and
factual historical ones.
Yes, my story is a Romance, something that
many people will laugh at. But, this one
is different. It gives the reader
something to think about, not just happy ever after. There are questions to be asked and
answered. Is there? Or isn't there?
I was born in India and came to England in
1958, the book is published in my maiden name in honour of my Father Harold
Hutson, a soldier who was in WW1 in Baghdad with T E Lawrence together they
translated Arabic books into English for the British Government. In both wars he was in the Intelligence
Corp. and died two weeks before I was
born.
I love writing, I like to make the world as
I would want it to be. I hate the
overuse of a certain four letter word. I
feel our language is descriptive enough.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatriciaPutt3
Website: www.ankhara.com
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