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ABOUT NICE PEOPLE

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LACED WITH HUMOUR

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NOSTALGIA AND

ENOUGH ROMANCE TO KEEP THE STORY GOING

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RAY HUNSLEY

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	The year is 2000.-The events take place in a village outside Hull and in Perthshire.Beth (81) a business woman living in Dunkeld, has been told she dying. She and the man she loved, Ray (83), a retired general practitioner, were separated during the war and have not met since. Now widowed, she asks her son Ian, to take her to be reunited with Ray so that she may die in his arms. They arrive late at night at his house. Love is instantly rekindled Ray declares she is not dying of disease but lack of love and she recovers. A car ride on snowbound roads nearly ends their romance.
	A story of the love of a retired Hull doctor Andrew (68) widowed four and a half years earlier for Clare (64)Clare at the age of twenty married the wrong man. He kills himself six months before the story opens. Andrew and Clare meet in a hotel, she accepts a dare to spend the night there together. Love follows but things do not go smoothly as her husband returns to haunt them He was a brute who treated his wife as his sex object destroying any feeling she might have for intimacy. Their adventures include an exorcism, recreation of their youth and In the happy ending a whimsical cure of her fear of making love
	Is a light hearted escapist tale dominated by Italian attitudes and love of fun, starting in Italy and ending in Scotland.Janet (30) a librarian and David (32) a Professor of Italian history both jazz lovers, are physically ill matched. She stands 6 ft. 3″ and he is a mere 4ft. 2″.. They meet, when he shares her seat on a holiday bus trip. It ends in a week together on an uninhabited island owned by their hotel. Marriage and discovery of their ideal holiday home leads to near tragedyA fisherman friend falls in a boat and David has to swim out to rescue him This leads to a natural Happy ending.
	It is 1977. Two writers, Eleanor (36) and Ken (37), both jazz players, stranded by bad weather in a Scottish log cabin, share their secrets.She is hideously scarred by a childhood accident and he is impotent. In spite off these handicaps ,even perhaps because of them, they fall in love. His love. and compassion overcomes her repulsion of her appearance and destroys the psychological distress Her determination to beat his impotence finally ends in pregnancy, marriage and his saving the life of their baby. By chance he learns more about his parents who were killed in a London air raid
	The story of two generations brought together by love of ball room dancing.George a journalist, and Georgina a PA fall in love and move in together. Her mother Alexandra a ballet dancer, maimed by injury moves to be near them. This leads to her meeting and falling in love with a millionaire widower with two young children. After their double wedding the brides discuss their honeymoons, and reveal how the bravery and courage of one of them led to two happy endings
	Holly Williams, a widow, and Matthew Tree a widower fall in love To protect their children’s legacies decide to live together.Matthew helps her daughter’s husband Henry, to business success. Their celebratory sinful weekend away, under the names of Mr. and Mrs Smith does not go well. On their return, she reunites Matthew and his estranged son Oliver through their mutual love of gardening. When Matthew falls from a ladder in his library breaking his arm he is admitted to hospital. Humiliation befalls Holly but they contrive a Happy Ending.
	Jack (26) and Jill (25) fall in love at first sight abd inevitably the nursery rhyme comes true.Their courtship is complicated by her mother Charlotte (45) and his father Tom (46) also falling in love. Their double wedding faces problems when a taxi driver’s strike leave Hull city centre and access to the Registry office gridlocked. With typical British grit they and others get their wish. WARNING This is the only story in the series that describes in detail a sexual encounter. It is not there for the voyeur but is an essential lead in to one of the Happy Endings.
	LOVE IS BETTER THE SECOND TIME AROUNDThe story takes place in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the 1970’s Kitty (53) a widow and Herbert (55) meet at the wedding of his daughter Agnes to her son Peter. A quiet wedding ushers in a new life for Peter raising his confidence This brings his hitherto mediocre career to a triumphant conclusion. Their retirement brings the circle full wheel. She enlarges her horizons and he returns to the lessons he learned from his grandfather in childhood
	The story starts in London in the 1950’s, when Philippa falls into the lap of Philip Moxey, son of Lord Moxey of the Heritage, on a tube train.They get out at Hyde Park, he proposes, she accepts, They fly to New York and to meet her family in Bermuda. There she learns more about the unusual history of the Moxey family dating back to 1066. She is revealed as a brilliant yachtswoman and her skill leads to a happy ending when they encounter a freak wave, off Dogger Bank in the North Sea on their return to their home in Hull. Would you like to Read Lord Pip & Lady Pippa?
	Takes places in the East Riding of Yorkshire when William (63) a hunchback knife grinder winks at Lucy (61) a retired nursing orderly across a doctor’s waiting room.Cupid’s bow strikes instantly and they move into her cottage together. As it should marriage follows Tragedy comes when saving a boy from death, William is trapped beneath a van. This threatens to revive the dormant tuberculosis which led to his hunchback. A highly unusual arrangement for his nursing care in a cottage hospital leads to a Happy Ending.
	This story takes place in Llandudno in North Wales, Nafferton and South Cave in the East Riding of Yorkshire.Martin (40) is a successful writer of detective stories. On holiday in Llandudno he meets Susan aged (36). She had a brilliant career in the BBC until, at the age of 30 she was dismissed under unusual circumstances and is near to suicide. They fall in love and she declares her love for him on a Clarinet They move to his bungalow in South Cave. Martin investigates and proves she was the victim of a diabolical plot to get her sacked. This leads to an offer of restitution by the BBC and brings the story to a colourful Happy Ending.
	Starts in Hull is 1990. Nancy aged 55 a widowed manicurist becomes housekeeper to Jack aged 70 a landowner.They fall in love in a chaste and proper way.Nancy who studied Psychiatry at the Open University discovers he suffers flashbacks of battle action in Burma. She cures these they visit the surviving widows who have been kept in ignorance of how their husband’s died. They organise a visit to the cemetery in Burma and set up a retreat for other flashback sufferers which leads to three Happy endings.
	This is a two part story set in the 1970’s in Croydon, South London and the Isle Wight. It includes an investigation made in Northern France in 1934.Paul, a retired retail chemist of 74 sees the 72 year old retired primary school headmistress Frances, on the other side of a London street and they fall in love. His wife and son died in childbirth in 1920. Her fiancée, also named Paul, was shot for cowardice in France in 1918. Part one describes how they overcome family’s opposition to where they should live after their marriage. Part two shows how he discovered her fiancée was not a coward but was murdered and how his reputation as a brave man was publicised. Their lives have an unusual happy ending, revealing just how much he at ninety. and she at eighty nine loved one another.
	Peter Drinkwater (26) rescues Agnes Flood when she is deluged by a wave of rainwater thrown up by his car. He takes her to the home he shares with his sister Helen. Agnes has run away from her own home. She makes a new life with Helen, Peter and their mother Kitty. Two marriages follow; Helen to Lance, and Peter to Agnes .At the reception Kitty finds a gentleman friend See How love came to Kitty and Herbert. Three happy endings in just under 6,000 words must be good value.
	Alec Stewart (65) a retired G.P. and widower boards a freighter sailing to South America planning to die on the voyage.In the next cabin is Ruth Trefusis (61) a recently widowed gynaecologist.They fall in love at first sight. Within two days they have to operate to release a trapped crewman.A grateful shipping company appoint them as Company Directors. The next day they are married by the ship’s captain and have their honeymoon on the ship before returning to England They survive to have their Happy Ending.a silver wedding and a happy end.
	Tom (75), a seaman has lead a bachelor life since being torpedoed during the war. He lives, on the top floor of a Tower Block in Hull.He believes Mary (74), his common law wife before the war and their daughter died in an air raid. After her Council house was destroyed she is moved to temporary accommodation in the flat next door to his. It does not take them long to recognise each other and their happy ending is bizarre, even brutal, but very fitting.
	Takes places in the East Riding of Yorkshire and on the Northumberland coast.Zena is a physically idle child with a keen intelligence, and an overwhelming love of books. Gerald, after a distinguished war record returned to civilian life as a schoolmaster. In 1964 she 16 and he is 51 when they fall in love, a taboo relationship. To protect her he puts out of his mind the idea of ever marrying the only woman he has ever loved. Things do not go as he planned. They marry when she is 21 and five years later, while she is nursing their fourth child, he discovers the courageous sacrifice she made on their wedding day, which foiled a blackmailer.

RAY HUNSLEY WRITES

…….I am 86, and writing has been my hobby since I was 15. I am the fool berated by Dr. Johnson because I do not write for money.

…….I had no need to. I was lucky enough to be able to make my living as a doctor.

…….After three years of courtship and fifty-eight years of a supremely happy marriage, the death of my wife left me with time on my hands.

…….I turned to rereading and collating what I have written over the past seventy years.

…….I enjoyed myself so much I thought others might like to read them as well..

…….My generation’s love of words, literature and story telling, was fuelled by unlimited access to free public libraries. Now is pay back time.

…….Any one is free to read my tales, and download one copy for personal family use them without charge.

…….All I ask is that others should not try to make money from my words, which is why I retain my copyright.

…….It is a wise rule that a writer should write about matters with which he or she, is familiar. The stories, some short some long, i have chosen to launch my venture, follow that rule.

…….It also explains why so many of my stories are set in Hull and the East riding of Yorkshire. This has been my home for 55 years.

…….My prime hope is to appeal to my generation. We fought and won a war, as our parents did, so that our successors might live in freedom and have a better life..

…….We had our codes, to which we subscribed without thinking.

…….Tragically, today, the standards we accepted have been eroded beyond imagining.

…….The one message, I would wish to send out to my readers, if any is

OUR GENERATION HAS A RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF THE WAY WE BEHAVED.