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by Donald Owen Crowe (Author)
*****Powerful, pulsating, gripping yet sensitiveA captivating comedy drama of love, redemption and hope.
Mathew is at the crossroads. As his life unravels, he inches closer to the edge of the abyss. Will he jump or can he be saved?
Mathew's family is an eclectic array of dysfunctional personalities, all entrenched in their own crises. His son Joshua is a complete enigma. The child doesn't simply recall snippets of past lives, he actually becomes long lost characters facing their death. He can be a Roman Legionnaire preparing for battle in Gaul, or a Welch rebel fleeing English archers with a secret message for his king. Each time he "dies" he has a precious message for his father.
Two women suddenly slip into Mathew's existence. One is a decrepit old bag lady, a mysterious "angel" who knows more about his family than he does. The other is his love of all times, the soul mate he thought he had lost forever.
At his bleakest moment, Mathew's dealt another terrible blow; his father Lorne, who suffers from atypical dementia, disappears. Can Mathew find his father before it is too late? Or will he fall into the chasm of loneliness he finds so dreadful?
A riveting story with an absorbing plot and beguiling characters, Trinkets in Love's Lost and Found is a captivating comedy drama of love, redemption and hope.
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Donald Crowe holds a B.A. (Honors) degree in English and Psychology, as well as a B.Ed. and a teaching certificate from the University of Toronto. He has worked as an officer in the Department of Corrections, a teacher in a psychiatric hospital, and as a counselor for emotionally disturbed children at a residential treatment center. He also worked for the Federal Government with Ministry of Immigration and Unemployment. Mr. Crowe enjoys an eclectic range of literature. His interests cover everything from psychological and religious texts to Romance poetry and the Classics. He has a particular affinity for Shakespeare, Dickens and the great writers of the late eighteen hundreds, and loves the nuances of Spanish and European writers. Due to a fusion of interrelated physical challenges, the author tries to spend about ten hours a week on his writings, although even that paucity of time isn't always possible. He devotes much of his time mentally re-developing plots, characters and dialogue. Donald has authored a number of prize-winning pieces of short fiction. Trinkets in Love's Lost and Found is his first published novel. The Innocent, his second book, is an engaging drama about the terrible plight of children abducted for the brutal world of the sex slavery industry. The author divides his time between Ajax, a suburb of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and Estero, a small village in southwest Florida between Fort Myers and Naples. His daughter, Danielle Crowe, a design and marketing specialist, conceived and crafted the cover for Trinkets in Love's Lost and Fond.
