Frances Clegg now a mature woman, matriarch of the ever expanding Clegg clan would direct the family through the many crisis's endured by them. With the help of her fortune, the hard-nosed culture earned in her youth and her early life contacts, she had developed Beck End into a business large enough to employ the whole family and more. Billy an itinerant worker later to become a valued employee caused a rift when he fell for a newly appointed manager at a critical time in developing the company. This led to his departure, together with a disabled partner and the organisation of an international jazz festival, ended the farming life for Fran and her husband. With the next generation ready to take over it was the best time to bow out.
About the Author: I'm Sybil Powell, wife, mother, friend, entrepreneur, traveler and now an author of books which reflect many of those life experiences. I spent most of my childhood in a seaside resort town on the south coast of my native England. Eastbourne was a wonderful place to grow up, but sheltered just enough to make me want to go out and spread my wings and see what the rest of the world had to offer! That adventure started after I married a wonderful, young serviceman. After settling into life in the forces, we moved to Germany where we lived for a couple of years. On returning to England and civilian life, we settled in the north where I found work in the more heavily industrialized world of Yorkshire. Very different from the life I had known in a seaside resort! I loved living in and learning about the lifestyles in different parts of England, but my education really expanded when we moved half the world away to Saudi Arabia. The contrast between the coastal mountain areas and the inland, desert cities along with the rich culture and traditions going back literally thousands of years, is something which has affected my life and my writing ever since. Eventually we bid 'Adieu' to those exotic, arid lands and returned to the UK. Back home again, I started my own business-a secretarial agency which provided companies with the then-fledgling service of a virtual assistant. We've now moved again and this time to Wales, where I've settled into my writing career, and very happily draw on my many experiences both at home and abroad. Because those experiences have been so diverse, my books tend to be very different from each other and stand on their own- in plot, characters, culture and background.