The Honourable Catherine

About the Book

The Honourable Catherine is the sequel to my last book, Jane Sinclair. It was written in behalf of those who asked for it. Catherine (Poppet) and Christopher are the children of Lady Jane and Sir Charles Cholmondelay, pronounced “chumley.” The two have an uncanny rapport that is activated in times of extreme stress, in peacetimes, and during action in the First World War. Chris loses his memory due to a wound incurred during an action against the Germans. Rescued by Poppet, he is lost to her for several years.

About the Author

Tom Edwards was born in Hampshire, England, where he spent his early years. After completing his education he served for six years in the Fleet Air Arm branch of the Royal Navy. Leaving the service he made his living for several years as an artist before moving to Southern Africa. He worked as a news reporter on several newspapers and as an engineer on various mines in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia, finally settling in what was then Rhodesia. During the Rhodesian conflict he joined the reserve branch of the security forces where he served on border patrol and in the Marine Division. It was there that he acquired much of the material for his first book ‘If I should die’. The war being lost, depending on which side you were on, he and a friend bought a thirty-foot boat in England and sailed around the world for four years; a trip bedevilled by pirates and hurricanes. They were finally shipwrecked off the coast of New Zealand and had to work there for a year to repair the boat. They carried on to Australia where Tom’s partner left him to return home. Tom continued on his own to South Africa via Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling and the Seychelles and eventually back to Australia where he became an Australian citizen. His penultimate adventure was to walk from John O’Groats, in the north of Scotland to Land’s End in the south of England, a distance of 1440km, which took him forty-six days to complete. At the ripe old age of eighty he and Greg, the son of his friend Joyce, sailed a 30 ft boat from Hobart in Tasmania to Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, a distance of about 1000ks, a trip beset with gale force winds, blown–out sails and many other difficulties. This trip proved to him that his sailing days were over. Tom has now retired to Lake Macquarie where he enjoys writing, painting and walking.