About
Born in Germany, Elisabeth immigrated to Canada as a small child. A self proclaimed gypsy, Elisabeth left home in her teens and began her journey across the country, before stumbling into the media. She is the author of three novels - ‘The Jade Pendant’ and its sequel, The Obsidian Stone - as well as the newly released “Returning Love" Winters will find her writing books in beautiful Zihuatanejo, Mexico, while the rest of the year, still a gypsy, she travels North America as an importer of fine jewelry. Elisabeth is engaged to be married in 2011, and is the proud mother of a son and a granddaughter.
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
I The Jade Pendant is loosely based on a similar incident I experienced while vacationing in beautiful Zihuatanejo in the late 90's. Like Lydia, I too lost my business while enjoying the beauty that Mexico had to offer. There really was a Rodolfo and other colorful characters in the book and som (though not all) of the hilarious situations that Lydia found herself in really did happen. It will be up to the reader to decide what is fact and what is fiction. Either way I hope you enjoy reading my story as much as I had writing it.
Reviews
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#333333;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">I just finished your book, "The Jade Pendant" and I wanted to tell you how much I loved the book. I have been going to Zih for 11 years now, and you completely captured the way that I feel about the town. Every time I am there, I can't help but think what it would be like to live there, even part time. <br />Is this book true to life? Did you marry Rodolfo? What a great romance! <br />I can't believe it finished the book in one sitting, but I just couldn't put it down. Are you still in Zih? I would love to meet you when I'm there next February, if you are there.<br /><br />Thank you so much for the WONDERFUL book!<br /><br />Judy <br />Portland, OR<br /><br />I could not put the book downa nd stayed up all night to finish it.<br />Cathy,<br />Port Orchard Wa</span></p>
