My grandmother loved the place, and tried to persuade my grandfather to stay there, but for various reasons which have never been quite clear, he preferred to go back to Aldeburgh when the war ended.

The school magazines at the time are full of stories and photographs. There were peacocks and formal gardens, the boys fished out of the dormitory windows, and the house was reputed to be haunted. For the next four years, the school inhabited Rushbrooke, and my mother's earliest memories were of dark panelling and long corridors. Pamela Mela Borawski CHt, founder of 3 Rays of Light, believes in the transformational power of our own mind and the importance of holistic healing. At the time of the move my grandmother was heavily pregnant with her youngest child, my mother, and stayed behind in Aldeburgh until the birth. It had been modernised and had heating and up-to-date plumbing. It was a wonderful red brick Elizabethan mansion, large enough to house everyone, with land enough for playing fields, and surrounded by a moat. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Espaol. Accordingly, he rented Rushbrooke Hall, near Bury St. The Moon in the Water by Pamela Belle, December 1, 1985, Berkley edition, It looks like you're offline. The Moon in the Water is a page-turning, epic, historical romance from a skilful writer of the period.My grandfather, Maurice Wilkinson, was the headmaster of a boys' school in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and at the onset of the First World War, decided that it would be a good idea to move his staff and pupils from their seafront location to a safer place inland. The bloody battles could tear the Heron family, and many others, apart for good. When Thomazine finds herself and her fortune betrothed to her cousin Dominic Drakelon while still only a child, she knows there is something she doesn’t quite trust about the sly, handsome boy.Īnd when she realises she is deeply in love with one of the Heron brothers and he with her, can she find a way of releasing herself from the engagement?īut just when she’s starting to settle into her new life the clouds of civil war loom on the horizon, and Thomazine’s whole world – not to mention the whole of England – threatens to change forever.

There is serious, prudish Simon, loyal Edward, clever Francis, the impetuous young Jamie and their romantic sister, Lucy. However, she soon falls in love with the romantic house and the Heron family who live in it. She finds herself torn from all that she knows and thrown into a completely different world. Thomazine is sent to live with her Heron family cousins in the beautiful rose-coloured sprawling home of Goldhayes in Suffolk. Not only an orphan, but a considerable heiress. When her close family are carried off by the smallpox, the small, ferociously independent Thomazine Heron finds herself an orphan at the age of ten.