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Biography:
Jan Vivian was born to Dutch parents in Caracas, Venezuela. He has self-published novels and short stories drawing ideas from his travels, what is seen in the newspapers or from personal experience. He is married, has a teenage son and lives in rural Warwickshire.
Other Published Books by Jan Vivian:
Two Lives - 3 short stories
Payment Deferred - A Novel set in New York and Amsterdam. A stolen bequest divides a family until a fateful reunion.
Just One Look - A novel set in Greece. Lives change following a chance holiday meeting.
And Then, I Met You - a collection of short stories set in England, Australia and The Netherlands. The wonderful thing is that when you least expect it you meet someone who may change your life.
To Be Published early 2010
In Fields of Gold - 3 stories set in England
In Fields of Gold an English couple open their home to a young girl from Belarus, an area affected by fallout from the Chernobyl reactor explosion many years before she was born. Her stay will offer restorative care in an environment of untainted natural beauty. One of her hosts falls ill; in an allegorical dream he experiences a natural disaster that, on waking, helps him to contrast comfortable circumstances with those that the young girl has to contend with.
Events unfold in Together, For Better and For Worse. A busy mother brings her children home from a gymkhana. Her boisterous sons break a display case that holds the treasured family picture of a soldier from the Great War and his devoted wife. She cuts her fingers on the shattered glass and faints. In a dream, she imagines the lives led by her great grandparents as their love for each other helps them to overcome the serious wounds that the soldier, a Royal Horse Artillery serviceman, suffers in action.
Following her divorce, a successful businesswoman spends Christmas and New Year alone in her new home overlooking the Thames. Her husband has denied her the chance of motherhood; he's had the 'snip'. Distracted, she resorts to a fling with a female work colleague but this is not the future. A city dealmaker asks her to accompany him to a New Year's Eve party of mutual clients; she learns that his wife has left him; they are childless and he, she infers, is to blame. Behind The Mirror Image contrasts the private lives of the characters with what the world sees of them.
