Buried
Treasure by Gilli Allan
Their
backgrounds could hardly be further apart, their expectations in life
more different. And there is nothing in the first meeting between the
conference planner and the university lecturer which suggests they
should expect or even want to connect again. But they have more in
common than they could ever have imagined. Both have unresolved
issues from the past which have marked them; both have an
archaeological puzzle they want to solve. Their stories intertwine
and they discover together that treasure isn’t always what it
seems.
Gilli Allan began to write in childhood - a hobby pursued
throughout her teenage. Writing was only abandoned when she left
home, and real life supplanted the fiction.
After a few false
starts she worked longest and most happily as a commercial artist,
and only began writing again when she became a mother.
Living in
Gloucestershire with her husband Geoff, Gilli is still a keen artist.
She draws and paints and has now moved into book illustration.
Currently published
by Accent Press, each of her books, TORN, LIFE CLASS and FLY or FALL
has won a ‘Chill with a Book’ award.
Following in the
family tradition, her son, historian Thomas Williams, is also a
writer. His most recent work, published by William Collins, is
‘Viking Britain’.
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