Jean Goulden,
Author
Jean Goulden is a published author, writer of Salt Spray & Aspens Blog, and a travel adventurer.
First Words
Hello! and thank you for checking out my website. I’m excited and honored to share my work with you.
The Stop Press news is that I have a forthcoming novel, A Glass Darkly. Set in New England, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of the Lenox family from the 1960s to the current century. It’s a new venture for me and I had to learn a completely new writing style. Early reviews call the book “forthright” “confident”, “appealing and welcoming.”
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Browse the pages to find out more about me and partner Chris. Learn about my non-fiction books, Hiking England’s Coast to Coast Way, and Blisters and Blessings, and sample my blog, Salt Spray and Aspens, with its quirky End Notes section, about our shared lives on the beaches of Florida and the mountains of Colorado.
Read on!
Jean
Books by Jean Goulden
Salt Spray & Aspens Blog
Brazil
An anticipatory hush settles over the grand circle and the mezzanine. In the boxes, fashionable fans flutter. The house lights dim, the stage lights glow as the curtain rises…
Whisky and Waves
Whisky and WavesFor as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to water, especially the sea. A favorite memory is when I was little, body-surfing on a wooden board in the North Sea. We didn’t catch all the waves, but when we did, it was glorious to ride up on the...
Yo-Ho-Ho
Yo-Ho-Ho!It’s the first weekend in May, and pirates are swarming all over our town. Cutlasses flash, eye patches wink, and silver shoe buckles gleam. “Fire in the hole,” they scream before the canons blast. But we are not held at knifepoint nor forced to walk the...
Going Back
Going BackIt was Palm Sunday, March 29th, 1931, when Edith and Willie welcomed their longed-for only child, Molly, to their home. Home was a small farm on an exposed hillside in Yorkshire. Tender-hearted Willie could never bear to kill his pig when it was fattened,...
Weird and Wonderful
Weird and WonderfulI’d guess most of my friends and blog readers think of themselves as animal lovers and curl up of an evening to watch the latest episode of “All Creatures Great and Small,” that comforting TV series set in rural Yorkshire in the 1930s and 40s, where...
Not Pie
Not PieI eased my weight from hip to hip on the torturously uncomfortable chair as French conversation drew to a close. As ever, class had been fascinating, but I was eager to leave and join my church in the Martin Luther King celebration parade. It was a busy day,...