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Marilyn Jenkins

Marilyn Jenkins

About

Welsh woman writer, Marilyn Jenkins was born and raised in South Wales and is a member of the WelshAcademy. She studied at Aberystwyth, Cardiff and London universities. She has worked as a teacher, lecturer and adviser in English. 

For the past twenty years her short stories and poetry have been published in magazines and her first poetry collection: Close Distances was published in Spring 2007 by Cinnamon Press. She has returned to Wales and full time writing after living in England and for brief periods in Canada and Australia. Her first novel: The Legacy of Alice Waters was published in 2009. It is a 'whydunnit' - the tragic story of a woman poisoner, executed in 1947.

Dangerous Alliance

Dangerous Alliance

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<p>United Nations’ sanctions are crippling North Korea. China has turned her back on her malevolent partner. The North Korean military machine is crumbling, unable to function. Oil reserves are minimal and the government seeks new alliances.Cargo and tourist ships are disappearing along the Somali and Kenyan coastline at an alarming rate. Speeches abound, but inaction emboldens Al-Shabab to seek their next prize: Kenya. The terror organization controls land but requires weapons.Bedlam Bravo team leader Colonel Trevor Franklin (Ret.) leads the small international team into East Africa. Tempers flare as the team is embroiled in a political quagmire. The axis must be stopped to avert an international crisis but at what cost?Proudly published by Solstice Publishing</p>

Story Behind The Book

Early one morning, not long after the Second World War, a woman is taken out of her cell and hanged. How do I feel about that? The answer is: uncomfortable. The story of Ruth Ellis influenced my fictional story of Alice Waters. Like Edith Thompson, Ellis was convicted of immorality rather than weight of evidence. There were a number of extenuating circumstances where she was concerned. She also left a daughter, an innocent victim. Alice's crime is nastier than Ellis's. She poisoned her lover's wife and child. She left behind a little daughter and people who loved and suffered for her for decades. When, years later, her daughter and granddaughter go in search of the truth - will they discover a monster outside the understanding of humanity? Can she be understood and forgiven? Read the book and find out.

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<p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#ff0000;font-size:10pt;">What Youwriteon reviewers had to say about 'The Legacy of Alice Waters':  </span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">...this is superb - it's heart wrenching, emotional and very well written... </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"></span></strong></p> <p></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">a very talented writer to keep so many balls juggling with such ease, well done. ..S. Birch </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"> </span></strong></p> <p></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">a rich interweaving of plot lines. . . </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"> </span></strong></p> <p></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">I loved the idea of the journals, the explanation of why Alice did what she did…gradually revealed to the reader as it is to her daughter. . . <br /></span></strong><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';"><font size="3"><br />G. Gibbons by email:</font></span></p> <p></p> <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';"></span></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';"><font size="3">I so enjoyed your book, which was beautifully written.  It kept me riveted all Christmas Eve after I played Santa for my daughter and Christmas Day after cooking the roast.  I loved the suspense and the wonderful female characters – Dessie, Maddie, Emily, Harriet.   It was tragic on the one hand, but triumphant on the other – I loved that Maddie walked out on her deadbeat cheating husband (none of the married men seem to have understood the meaning of fidelity) and that the truth really did set her free in so many ways.</font></span> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">find further reviews at:   </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/8199343"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.librarything.com/work/8199343</span></a>;  </span></strong></p> <p></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;"><a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=frankieshaw"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=frankieshaw</span></a>  </span></strong></p> <p></p> <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Book Antiqua';"></span></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p>