When I was little, I lived in a three-hundred-year-old thatched cottage in Devon. I went to a primary school called Brampford Speke, other villages around had wonderful names too, such as Cheriton Fitzpaine, Nomansland and Black Dog.
On a distant hill, called Raddon Top, stood three solitary trees which at Christmastime looked like the Three Wise Men – especially at twilight when the stars appeared.
The village in the story is based on a real village in Devon which had a pub called the Three Tuns Inn. People from many places around the world live in harmony in this peaceful English village.
Tim Truelan grew up in the West Country of England and attended Exeter College of Art, followed by a post-diploma year at Brighton, Sussex.
In his early twenties, he set out for adventure across America, supported by a variety of interesting jobs, including working with a ski company, a French-Canadian carnival, building sail boats on the West Coast and finally working aboard the Queen Mary for the Californian Museum of the Sea Foundation, Long Beach, Southern California.
Tim has ridden horses across England, Portugal and Spain. In the Americas he has ridden Western saddle in: Mexico, California and Montana.
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