Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, books, birds, flowers (wild and tame), and listening to classical music. They have two grandsons and a granddaughter. Their seven children are all grown and independent. They live in the country near Ithaca, in a house designed and partly built by Edward. He and his wife Joan moved to upstate New York in 1970. He lived in Berkeley for 25 years, working at various jobs while he wrote children's books. Later he went back for a master's degree in library science. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.Īfter the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, bo Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. All in Good Time drawings by Ruth Robbins. They have two grandsons and a granddaughter. The writing style is natural and fluent as Inge tells her story.

After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The vanquished scoundrel returns, with sinister plans.Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Domineering cousin Jane forbids more meetings. Their parents meet and don't fall in love. She and her new best friend Victoria Walker just know that when their parents meet it will be love at first sight, and the two families will become one.īut nothing happens the way it should. Shaw thinks, until I can get her to a doctor. His daughter Susan must be madOnly a girl suffering from hallucinations would make a request like that, on top of a wild story about a good witch, an elevator that travels to 1881, a vanquished scoundrel, a dug-up treasure, and a distressed nineteenth-century family named Walker. 'You want to take me back to the nineteenth century, to marry somebody there?'

Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd