Playing in Real Time

In a beautiful but disheveled country manor, Henry Eldon knows it is time to make good on a promise. He hires Ellen Quinlan to reveal a mural's secrets.Ellen - an accomplished art restorer but failed artist - gratefully runs from London and her unfaithful fiancé to restore the mural. She hopes to find herself and, as she is drawn into the work, she is also drawn into Henry's life and friendships. As she works on the mural, Ellen learns how Henry survived a World War II Prisoner of War...
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In a beautiful but disheveled country manor, Henry Eldon knows it is time to make good on a promise. He hires Ellen Quinlan to reveal a mural's secrets.Ellen - an accomplished art restorer but failed artist - gratefully runs from London and her unfaithful fiancé to restore the mural. She hopes to find herself and, as she is drawn into the work, she is also drawn into Henry's life and friendships. As she works on the mural, Ellen learns how Henry survived a World War II Prisoner of War camp but returned to London wounded with a grief that would not heal. And from Henry's one piano student and aspiring jazz musician, Ellen leans that Henry himself was once a renowned jazz pianist in London's Soho - but Dave has never heard Henry play. As Ellen's new friendships deepen, so do her feelings for Dave. She finds her heart opening to new possibilities and hope until Dave's ex-wife returns hoping to rebuild their on-again, off-again relationship. Ellen, like Henry, looks to the mural in hopes that the past might heal the present."Playing In Real Time" is a story about life, love, and continuing when it seems as if all is lost. From the trauma of war, to the exuberant joy of jazz, this novel will leave you uplifted.