A Rather Lovely Inheritance (39 page)

5. Both Penny’s and Jeremy’s parents keep secrets from them. How do these secrets emerge? Why were they kept quiet in the first place? Why are so many family histories so fragmented? What was Great-Aunt Penelope’s real legacy to them all?

C.A. Belmond
has published short fiction, poetry and humorous essays. She was awarded the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship and was twice a Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award finalist. She has written, directed and produced television drama and documentary, and her screenplays were shortlisted at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She has taught writing at New York University, and was a writer-in-residence at the Karolyi Foundation in the South of France.

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