…”Ms Kennedy proves a fine storyteller and I was engaged right from the start and carried along by the drama. It is claimed by historians that the Protestant Reformation shaped modern day Europe, helping to draw the boundaries of each nation state, as powerful forces coalesced around their preferred new religious leader, and thus theirContinue reading “Wonderful Review of The Brothers Path by Tracy Rail”
Category Archives: Switzerland
The Story of Zürich and Me
Lisl Zlitni has kindly invited me to write a guest post on her blog, Before the Second Sleep, in connection with a series she’s doing on my novels. Here’s Journey to Zürich. Zürich Through Time and Space by Martha Kennedy Grossmünster (Great Church) My relationship with Zürich did not start well. On my first visitContinue reading “The Story of Zürich and Me”
Martin of Gfenn — An Artist’s Story
Martin of Gfenn BY MARTHA KENNEDY Find & buy on Amazon In Martha Kennedy’s quiet, intensely moving novel Martin of Gfenn, the title character is given at a young age by his father to the Augustine Canons of St. Martin in thirteenth-century Zurich. The boy quickly demonstrates a talent for art, which the Augustinians encourageContinue reading “Martin of Gfenn — An Artist’s Story”