His
incredible journey began at Rachel House
 Colin,
from Kinross, became involved with Rachel House because one of his
boys is best friends with a son of Andrea Cail, the hospice’s
Head of Care.
Andrea
talked him into using his business connections to get Scottish
Courage to sponsor some work in the gardens and Colin ended up
working hands-on as well.
Like
many people before and since, he discovered there is rarely such a
thing as a “little” involvement with Rachel House.
It
gets under your skin and that’s exactly what happened to him.
“I
got to know what they do and how well they do it. I got
emotionally involved with the place, it’s as simple as that.
Worried
“Five
years ago I was discussing Rachel House with Andrea and she said
how she was worried about the money to fund and run the second
hospice, Robin House at Balloch. I said how much I wanted to do
something to help and she suggested I write a book.
“It
was probably just a joke and she might as well have said I should
climb Everest or swim the Channel for all I knew about writing a
book.”
But
one day, while Colin was helping to build a bird hide in the
magical gardens of Rachel House, the idea came to him of three
children going on an incredible journey through time.
Colin’s
job as a business consultant — he says he hates the phrase but
it means he helps people write long-term business plans — means
he is constantly flying across Europe.
He
is abroad two or three days a week and that has inevitably meant
endless hours in airport departure lounges.
However,
delays in Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Stockholm are suddenly
not the burden they were. Now it means time to write and that’s
exactly where Colin penned the first in a set of five novels and
much of the remaining series.
Booksellers
Waterstone’s are so impressed by Colin’s first book they want
him to do book signings and asked him to take part in a “Heroes
and Villains” promotion in their stores in March and April.
“I
wrote this book for the children at Rachel House, but my children
— Peter (17), James (15) and Laura (14) — are the main
characters. There will be five books. Every penny of profit from
the first one will go to CHAS. Rachel House was the inspiration
and it’s only right that they benefit.”
 To
The End Of The World will be published by Myroy Books. ISBN
0-9548949-0-1.
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