PIECES OF IDENTITY

About the Book

Not everything is as it seems. No-one was more aware of this than Simon Fielden--unscrupulous art-dealer--in his personal and professional life. But nothing prepared him for the discoveries he made researching the abandoned French farmhouse he had bought as an escape from the pressures of London life and his own demons. Tracing its story from its origins in the eighteenth century through the years of the German Occupation, Simon’s maison de reve became, through a terrible error of judgement, a place from which he and his wife, Becky, had to flee. A study in ambiguity, ‘Pieces of Identity’ accompanies Simon on his journey of self-discovery where, even in his new life, not everything, as he found to his cost, was as it seemed.

About the Author

After a distinguished career in education administration, Donald Naismith retired to ' one of most unfashionable and unknown parts of France' where he now lives with his family and which provides the setting for this story. Educated at Belle Vue Boys Grammar School in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire where he grew up and at Clare College, Cambridge where he held an Open Exhibition in History, he was appointed CBE and Chevalier des Palmes Academiques in 1995 for services to education in England and France.'