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Vivaldi's Lost Concerto  Fiona Sinclair knows she must do all that she can to earn her release from prison. A childhood of neglect, years of drug abuse and homelessness have all but eroded the good in her. When she is given a battered flute as part of her music therapy, she begins to hear a tune that has both haunted and enchanted her since childhood and she draws from it the strength she needs to carry on. By chance she learns that her mysterious tune is the second movement of a recently discovered Vivaldi concerto that has lain hidden in Scottish archives for three hundred years. But Fiona doesn’t ever listen to classical music and this piece has not been played for centuries.
As Fiona’s  tries to solve the mystery  of Vivaldi’s Lost Concerto  the novel takes the reader  back to 18th Century Venice and into the lives of the composer Antonio Vivaldi, his lover Paolina Giro and Lord Robert Kerr, the young nobleman who buys the concerto while on a Grand Tour away from battle weary Jacobean Scotland. 

(The print copy and e-book  will be available for purchase  from Amazon, Book Depository, Barnes and Noble and other local book dealerships after July 14th 2019. Please let me know if you have any trouble ordering and I will contact the distributor.)
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The Man who Rowed Away a modern retelling of the selkie myth. in Crush : stories about love. ​​

Missing: A Hebridean Mystery. Marianne is a disillusioned conservation archaeologist working at the British Museum and grieving the recent sudden loss of her father.  Dragged  kicking and screaming out of her London-based comfort zone to Scotland's windy Outer Hebrides she begins an unlikely but addictive search for the missing Lewis chessmen.  Marianne  uncovers the many layers of intrigue around the chess men and the novel sweeps the reader back in time to  meet the women whose decisions led to the disappearance of the missing pieces. ​
Family History A Family on the Move: The Todds, Dunbars and Fergusons. A genealogical exploration of my paternal ancestors. This (draft) book traces the many branches of these families, beginning in industrial Victorian Manchester and travelling as far back as the 17th Century into Scotland, Yorkshire and the Isle of Man. ​

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  • Books
    • Published Work
    • Short Stories
    • More About Jennifer
  • Events
  • Blog
  • RESEARCHING INFORMATION
    • Researching Vivaldi's Lost Concerto >
      • Newbattle Abbey
      • Venice
    • Research for Missing Pieces >
      • The Scottish Clearances
      • Kelp Production in the Hebrides.
      • Icelandic Sagas and Cape Breton
      • British Museum
      • Blackhouses
  • Dunbar Todd Ferguson Family History
    • Todds in Ayrshire
    • Todds in Galloway >
      • Abbey of Luce
    • Fergusssons , Dalmellington,
    • Fergusons Ayr >
      • Fergusons of Ayr- Photos
      • James Murray Ferguson
      • James, John Todd and William Ferguson
      • John and Grace Ferguson in Manchester
      • Gracie Craik Ferguson
    • Dunbars in Wigtownshire
    • Dunbars in Manchester
    • Creers
    • Falconers
    • GRACE DUNBAR AND JOHN FERGUSON IN MANCHESTER
    • Hugh F Dunbar
  • Contact