LOST TO TWO WORLDS
About this audiobook
“LOST TO TWO WORLDS is a sad reflection of our times, when evil men do evil things yet flourish without misgivings, while good men can anguish a lifetime from childhood trauma that permanently defines them.
The story unfolds over two centuries on three continents. It focuses on the lives of two men whose characters are diametrically opposed: Benjamin Boyd, a Scotsman and a real-life, historic pioneer who arrives in Australia in 1842, and a fictional character named Daniel Hannaford, a mining engineer born in Australia in 1953. A man with few redeeming qualities, Boyd stops at nothing, including murder and a form of slavery known as blackbirding, all to satiate his excessive personal needs and a driving ambition to restore his family’s fortunes.
173 years later, Daniel Hannaford accepts an engineering contract on the small island of Lucaya in the Caribbean. Disturbed by a tormented past and an irresolute personality, Daniel meets Brianna, a Jamaican bartender at an island government party. That same evening, both are witness to a brutal attack on a woman, encouraged by the island’s premier and perpetrated by the son of an influential British Lord and billionaire.
Separated by almost two hundred years, the two stories, narrated in juxtaposition, illustrate the good and evil of two very different men, one driven by greed and ambition and the other tormented by his past and the guilt of loving two women.”
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Lost To Two Worlds
J Michael Bailey
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Excerpt From
Lost To Two Worlds
J Michael Bailey
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About the author
LOST TO TWO WORLDS is Michael’s first serious writing endeavor since the 1970’s to be followed in 2023 by a sequel set in Central America and the Caribbean.
He is also busy writing a semi-autobiographical story, spanning a period of over a hundred years, when a young couple elope to New York on the Queen Mary from England in 1937. What follows is a devastating family tragedy, the consequences of which dramatically impact generations of lives from the onset of the Second World War until this present day.
Michael was born and educated at a boarding school in England and lived near Harrogate in the West Riding of Yorkshire before moving with his family in the mid-60’s to Vancouver in British Columbia. There for several years he worked for CBS Books before establishing his own publishing company, which he later sold to a major US publishing entity in New York. Then in the late nineties Mike moved to the Caribbean and developed a small hotel.
He migrated to Australia in 2014 and is now happily retired writing and maintaining a rural property on the far south coast of New South Wales. Mike has been married to his Australian wife for forty years and they have two children.
