No Epitaph, The Bennier Story, Wanganui 1917
is a novelised history of a haunting visitor to an abandoned cottage on Oeta, Mangamahu, a farm about twenty miles from Whanganui. Some blocks came on the market in 1990 and we bought one of them and it had a dilapidated cottage on it. It was while resting on the verandah of this cottage that I became acutely aware of a strange woman on the road in front and I later discovered she had died violently some 90 years earlier. I did not know it at the time but my grandparents Lucy and George Campbell had been the first to occupy the cottage after the attack and had brought their children including my father John there as a newborn in late 1917. I feel my sensibilities were heightened by this unknown preconditioning - No Epitaph is my response to this paranormal prompting and unravels the struggle of the forgotten woman, Ethel Bennier. Please visit Felicity Campbell's Books at http://www.book14me.com