Glance

From the coal mines of Northern England, which fuelled the Allies in World War II, to the war-torn streets of Saigon after the Vietnam War, two young souls charted their paths to America in the 1980s. Despite their vastly different journeys, fate brings them together in Indiana, where they uncover a collection of papers penned by a young Abraham Lincoln and hidden by his friend Eleanor Smith. This remarkable discovery ignites a shared quest to uncover the true significance of the documents for Lincoln and his childhood companion. As they delve deeper into their investigation, the revelations they uncover prove as transformative as the journey that brought them together.

Colin Graham is a trained hotelier who became a stockjobber instead. Retired now, he put a history degree at the Open University on hold to write this book. He is married to Jenny, a teacher, and he has two sons—Ross, who is a Ph.D. student in California and Jamie, who is a biodiversity consultant based in Cambridge and London. Of Scottish and Northern English extraction, he is a cyclist and hiker, as well as having a keen interest in the arts and travel. This is his first published novel.