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Set in the magnificent scenery of North Wales, the Doorkeeper takes you into a time when livings were earned by great physical work and family love was the norm. The simple pleasures of rural country life with its trials and tribulation made for happy days. Jonathan is ten years old. He forced by the Great Depression to abandon his privileged upbringing in affluent southern England and live with his maternal grandparents on their remote hill farm near Capel Garmon in far off N. Wales. But he can have no idea what wonderful, life transforming events are about to befall him. Together with his ragged cousin William, Jonathan and the reader are taken into another world, Ansaurius where we learn of the real power of Mother Earth as she provides for mankind by growing houses from seed and much more. They learn how we are all in danger of abusing her benevolence by greed and pollution long before it became fashionable.
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This novel is the first of seven. The time: summer 1931. The location: a sheep farm on a mountainside in N. Wales, UK. A ten-year-old boy has been dumped onto his grandparents by a self-made London society socialite who has deserted him and his father for a fascist envoy. There is another child on the farm, William. Their friendship blossoms; William if he had lived in Dickensian London would have been the Artful Dodger. They roam the hills and forests and are confronted by The Doorkeeper, the local squire gone mad as is said by locals. But he is far more than that. Through him they visit the world of Ansaurius, a series of magic that will make your heart fly.
