Book description
Book 1: The Louise trilogy. Winner of the Bisto Book of the Year
Award 2004 and Reading Association of Ireland Award 2005. As the
daughter of a wealthy Dutch family, Louise Eeden knows that certain
things are expected of her. When her father commissions a famous
artist to paint her portrait, she reluctantly agrees. But lately
things have started to move too fast in her life. Somehow everyone
believes she is engaged to Reynier de Vries; a marriage that will
bring about the merger of two respected pottery businesses. In the
studio with Master Haitink and his gangly apprentice, Pieter, Louise
unexpectedly finds freedom to be herself.
But someone has been
watching her every move, and her deepening friendship with Pieter
has not gone unnoticed. Behind the scenes, a web of treachery and
deceit is gradually unravelling, leading to a brutal and shocking
confrontation. And fate has yet another surprise in store for Louise Eeden.
Aubrey Flegg was born in Dublin. His early childhood was spent in
County Sligo, Ireland. He went to school in Dublin and later in England.
After a spell with a mountain rescue team in Scotland, he returned to
Ireland to study geology at Trinity College. He then did geological
research in Kenya, before joining the Geological Survey of Ireland in
1968. Aubrey recently took early retirement in order to concentrate on
writing. His first book, Katie's War, is about the civil war period in
Ireland; it was published in 1997. Katie's War has recently won the
Peter Pan Award 2000 -- an award created by IBBY Sweden for a children's
book, translated into Swedish, which gives information on another
culture. Wings Over Delft, the first book in the Louise trilogy, won the
Bisto Book of the Year overall award in 2004.
