Four Queens Questing

Would you like to spend three months at an old English Castle?

A moat filled with floating lily pads surrounds the Castle which stands in splendid isolation deep in the English countryside. This Castle has now been transformed into an international Study Center, milling with students and teachers who bring new life and a different energy into this peaceful setting.

Morgan is travelling to England to get away from an unhappy relationship. She is the ESL teacher (English as a second language) and she is expecting a group of Japanese students together with a number of students from the continent. Charlotte is coming home after twenty five years in Canada. She is the new artist in residence and she expects to do a lot of sketching and painting along the south coast of England. She is also hoping for a reunion with a beloved person from her past. Denise is looking for Romance at the Castle. She is teaching a course on English literature, but sometimes she has trouble distinguishing between her reality at the Castle and the romantic reality depicted in the novels she reads. Vivian is the French teacher. She has a Parisian boyfriend who will soon be coming for a visit to the Castle. But Vivian wants to make a new life for herself here in England. For these women arriving at the Castle is the beginning of the long journey towards self-discovery. 

Can they be successful in their quest? All four women find themselves at a crucial turning point in their lives. The decisions they make now, while in the course of coming of age, will determine their future. They each have choices, but will they make the right ones? As Vivian says, quoting a Chinese proverb, 'Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.' 

If you enjoy the novels of Debbie Macomber or Catherine Ryan Hyde, you will also appreciate the multifaceted stories in the novel 'Four Queens Questing.'