We’ve been waiting for lockdown to ease before putting our latest book in the hands of the printers. Tomorrow we visit Short Run Press, Exeter, to see how Peter’s page layouts, which he has worked out on paper, will translate to digital.. SO FAR, SO GOOD is a 150-page book with illustrations on nearly every page. It shows, in words and pictures, how we have made our life together, shaped by our separate years of childhood, meeting as young adults and sixty years of marriage. We began working on the book in the summer of 2020, the year of our diamond wedding anniversary. Now, in April 2021, we are about to go into production. The back cover will show this oil painting of our local lane.
‘Along the lane’, oil painting by Peter Barrett
back cover text:
When Peter and Susan met and married in 1960 they shared similar ambitions – Peter to paint for a living, Susan to write. The present book completes an unintended trilogy charting the way they have fulfilled their dreams: Travels with a Wildlife Artist, the Living landscape of Greece, Columbus, 1986; The Garden of the Grandfather, Life in Greece in the 1960s, 2018; and now this book, So Far, So Good, sixty years together in words and pictures, which celebrates their diamond wedding anniversary in the midst of the covid pandemic, 2020.
COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT £15 (+ £3 p&p) FROM MAY 2021
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