Landscape With Clouds

Landscape With Clouds 
by Ellen Farrell

Orphaned Catherine Mortimer is brought up by her uncle and aunt, and when they are killed she devotes herself to constructing a happy life for her young cousin Jamie. They live in a rented house in Tewkesbury, where she is the accounts manager of a printing firm. 

Catherine and Jamie, returning to England from Arcos, south of Spain, stop off in Madrid. They are in the walled garden of the monastery of El Escorial when they meet Henry Galdos Powell, an American boy who has only recently arrived to stay with his father. His mother is dead. Henry is lost and frightened, and Catherine and Jamie wait with him until the arrival of his father. Luis Galdos de Herrera is 37 years old, the head of a mining corporation and the bitter survivor of a divorce. Catherine is struck by his cool, detached strength, while he notices her devotion to her cousin. Each makes a profound impression on the other.

Back in England Catherine finds herself jobless and unable to meet the costs of keeping Jamie at the school where he is a weekly boarder. In the car when his parents were killed, he still suffers nightmares. Concerned about his state of mind she hides her anxieties, but Jamie is not fooled. He writes to Henry. Luis, recognising Catherine’s unremitting drive to protect Jamie and needing someone to take care of his own son, arrives in Tewkesbury and proposes that Catherine return to Spain to take full control of both boys, a job for which she will be well paid. Henry is also to be enrolled in Jamie’s school, and Jamie’s education will be assured. Catherine agrees to the plan.

About the Author :-

Of Irish descent (she has three Irish grandparents) Ellen loves to travel and her stories come in part from this experience. A voracious reader, she devours biography, novels, poetry and criticism, and when not writing she enjoys watching films, listening to music, spending time with her family and, of course, talking to friends.

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