"VAGUE VACATION" 1st Chapter "Pat Vert" Joan Marshall Grants book about her travels

In 1946 Joan Grant and her second husband Charles Beatty escaped England and rationing for a motoring holiday round France and Switzerland. Petrol was scarce, £75 was all they were allowed to take out of the country, prices had soared, but the food!…the wine!
Joan Marshall Grant was born in 1907, and was educated by listening to the conversations of her father and his fellow scientists, having at 15 refused to continue more formal studies as a protest against the dismissal of a favourite governess. She then worked in her fathers mosquito control institute, played ‘real’ tennis, in his court at Hayling Island, and Golf for Hampshire, until she married Lesley Grant in 1927. Their daughter Gillian, who was born in 1930, has a daughter and two sons, and is married to sculptor, David Wynne.

CHAPTER 1
PAT VERT

I have read almost all her books aloud because i love them : Time out of Mind (1957) https://youtu.be/gylWKlVbLwM?si=uxTxtG-_ABGYuMql
Winged Pharaoh (1937) https://youtu.be/hAnqd4KOqq8?si=wUJaI2A3bRLYb_p7
Life as Carola (1939) https://youtu.be/vysIWrgbnTg?si=UMlXDb-hoXtVZ73S
Eyes of Horus (1942) https://youtu.be/lU6WqL8TuTw?si=XURn4ek9Dwjfffh4
Lord of the Horizon (1943) https://youtu.be/XCh67XujXWU?si=-sH8o9wleMxN8EYn
Scarlet Feather (1945) https://youtu.be/xkagyoSqSyg?si=5acEjBg2QlT1gPjx
Return to Elysium (1947) https://youtu.be/SNi1zerlxfk?si=pnLEK8kOw3Ckct8j
So Moses was born (1952) https://youtu.be/xwiETdSbI2g?si=AHCG9VGTFq4n8gLU Fiction – The Laird and the Lady 1947 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ILAI4ECmM&list=PLNTFMm5KKlFxaa6UJdQo30_Tjx0c5ax6j&index=3
"A Lot to Remember " https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTFMm5KKlFz1Q0PvUvmqtt-Xa7mEPu4l

I read my own book aloud (not yet published) "Bliss after Life" - but read aloud https://youtu.be/nvj4aIDMFOI?si=jd1ED_kmdRv8HNFL
"Wer's glaubt wird selig" in German •
"Lydia" Book 2 , below playlist : https://youtu.be/kh83JFVHvNs?si=bghbjlRHWzlS5jvD
and others - Harry Edwards "Life in Spirit" was wonderful und auch in Deutsch ! Please like and subscribe - thank you .
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