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Anita Ward

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Jersey, The United Kingdom

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https://thefrenchsecret.com

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Ebooks

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April 2017

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Anita Ward is a new author braving life on the island break of Jersey, among the southern Channel Islands, with her husband, David, mere minutes from some of the most astonishing island-shaping tides in the world. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and having spent over fifty years working in the finance industry in Jersey, Anita has set her debut series on her home island of Jersey—along with several of the Channel Islands—as a stirring window into the past as she delves into its history around the time of the German occupation in World War II.

During her long career, she found herself increasingly obsessed with words, not numbers, and one day she counted out 5,000 words of her intended novel for a contes ...more

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message 2: by Rafa

Nov 26, 2019 08:27AM

Hi Anita!
Thank you so much for accepting my friend invite :)
Looking forward to your reviews!!

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message 1: by Margaret

Nov 03, 2019 11:27AM

Anita - you have recently befriended me. I was born on Guernsey !
So good to hear you are a Channel Islander too !

I'm not very good at doing the technology of Good Reads yet, so hope this reaches you,. But I have read probably thousands
of books. REALLY !
Margaret Jenkins. Now in London.

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