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G. M. Baker
Biography
G. M. Baker has been a newspaper reporter, managing editor, freelance writer, magazine contributor, PhD candidate, seminarian, high school teacher, desktop publisher, programmer, technical writer, department manager, communications director, non-fiction author, speaker, consultant, and grandfather. He has published stories in The Atlantic Advocate, Fantasy Book, New England’s Coastal Journal, Our Family, Storyteller, Solander, and Dappled Things. There was nothing much left to do but become a novelist. He is currently serializing an historical novel, The Wistful and the Good, on Substack. Subscribe to the newsletter at https://gmbaker.substack.com.
Series
Books
The Wistful and the Good
by G. M. Baker
Series: Cuthbert's People, Book 1.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 94,720.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: April 4, 2022
by
G. M. Baker.
Categories:
Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Christian » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
The mighty are undone by pride, the bold by folly, and the good by wistfulness. Elswyth's mother was a slave, but her father is a thegn, and Drefan, the man she is to marry, is an ealdorman's son. But though Elswyth is content with the match, and waits only for Drefan to notice that she has come to womanhood, still she finds herself gazing seaward, full of wistful longing. From the sea come...