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    The Lost Traveller
    The Lost Traveller
    The Lost Traveller
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    The Lost Traveller

    By John Barber

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    J finds himself in Greenwood High Street when his classic car breaks down. He heads to the local pub The Plough. There is an instant attraction between himself and the Ruth, the Landlady. His tells her that he was just passing through, then that he is a location manager. He has to wait in the village whilst he waits for parts to repair his car. His relationship with Ruth grows but so do stories of his background and his reason for being in Greenwood. She is unsure what to believe until J loses her trust completely. Can she forgive and accept him back? J has a lot of talking to do.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Barber
    Release dateFeb 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310654220
    The Lost Traveller
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    John Barber

    John Barber was born in London at the height of the UK Post War baby boom. The Education Act of 1944 saw great changes in the way the nation was taught; the main one being that all children stayed at school until the age of 15 (later increased to 16). For the first time working class children were able to reach higher levels of academic study and the opportunity to gain further educational qualifications at University.This explosion in education brought forth a new aspirational middle class; others remained true to their working class roots. The author belongs somewhere between the two. Many of the author’s main characters have their genesis in this educational revolution. Their dialogue though idiosyncratic can normally be understood but like all working class speech it is liberally sprinkled with strange boyhood phrases and a passing nod to cockney rhyming slang.John Barber’s novels are set in fictional English towns where sexual intrigue and political in-fighting is rife beneath a pleasant, small town veneer of respectability.They fall within the cozy, traditional British detective sections of mystery fiction.He has been writing professionally since 1996 when he began to contribute articles to magazines on social and local history. His first published book in 2002 was a non-fiction work entitled The Camden Town Murder which investigated a famous murder mystery of 1907 and names the killer. This is still available in softback and as an ebook, although not available from SmashwordsJohn Barber had careers in Advertising, International Banking and the Wine Industry before becoming Town Centre Manager in his home town of Hertford. He is now retired and lives with his wife and two cats on an island in the middle of Hertford and spends his time between local community projects and writing further novels.

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      The Lost Traveller - John Barber

      The Lost Traveller

      A short story by John Barber

      © June 2015 John Barber

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction.

      Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.

      Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      The Lost Traveller

      If the car hadn’t broken down where it did he might never have stayed. The trouble with classic cars was that they had a habit of developing faults in parts of the countryside where there was no specialist for miles around to fix the problem.

      Fortunately, he had come to a halt in the main road which ran through a village. The car had given up the ghost outside a pub.

      Only a few people were walking along the pavements. No other cars passed him by. It seemed like the type of English village found on the cover of a jigsaw puzzle. The houses were all built from local stone and each one had a manicured front garden and window sills awash with tumbling flowers of every colour and kind. There were a few shops but it was not until he reached the end of the main road where more houses became detached from their neighbour that he saw any sign of life at all.

      There was a coffee shop, a guest house and a large shed that appeared to be a working garage but for the doors being resolutely shut and padlocked. There were a few cars with repairs in progress standing like predatory insects on raised hind legs of steel; and two recently repaired older models offered

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