Ordinary People

Here then is Part VII of the continuing story of the lives of the people who live on and around the village Green in Middlewapping, most of whom will be familiar to anyone who has read the first six parts of the saga. In this part of our tale, Percival goes on a river - journey through the jungles of Borneo, from which he is determined not to return until he has reached resolution to certain aspects of his life. On his return, however, he discovers that Keith and Meadow have made the fulfillment of this resolution rather more complicated, and he is forced to reconsider, at least in the short term. For now Sophia, the young witch, has entered the arena of village life. Sophia has been set a very specific task by the sisterhood of healers; she is to wait for the return of Rebecca, who is suspected of carrying out the most heinous of crimes. As we will see, however, Sophia is not the only person who is awaiting Rebecca's return, for a new and far more evil menace has emerged, of which nobody was aware, and Sophia ultimately finds herself with a most difficult dilemma; should she damn Rebecca, or should she try to save her, even if she must lie to the sisterhood in order to do so? Sophia is in a sense also the link to the historical part of our drama, for we return also to the 17th century, when the islands of Great Britain are on the brink of civil war. And here we meet again Jacob Cleves, who's family becomes embroiled in this most terrible conflict. His sons are sent to fight, and he must take drastic action to try to save himself and his wife and children. Here also we encounter once again Edward Tillington, the third Lord of that line, who is so wracked with uncertainty regarding his past that he turns to his god to prove his birthright to him once and for all, and in doing so he risks everything on one sea - voyage, which will make his fortune, or break him. Back in the present day, Ashley Spears, the once accomplished and highly revered rock musician, receives a visitor from his own very particular past, who wishes him to take up his guitar once more and perform on the world - stage. Ashley rejects the notion out of hand, but somebody close to him has other ideas, and he is forced to resolve his own particular dilemma. We encounter here other characters whom we have met before; Reginald hatches a plan to make a love - match of a very particular nature, but he must, if he can, keep the matter a secret even from his closest friends. And in the end, Victoria Tillington receives news which will make her see her own future, and the future of her son, Henry, in an entirely new light. But ever do past deeds and events come to influence the lives of these modern people, and ever are they haunted the ghosts of those who have come before them.