Anna Courtney (Snr) (nee) Van Essen

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Anna Courtney (Snr) (nee) Van Essen

Birthdate / Deathdate: c1864 – 1906
Books: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder,

Mother of Michael Courtney. Anna is desperately in love with Sean Courtney, and is left pregnant with their son, Michael. She later marries Garrick, in a small discreet ceremony in Pietermaritzburg, but goes on to commit suicide following further rejection by Sean.

Children: Captain Michael Courtney DFC

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Books that feature Anna Courtney (Snr) (nee) Van Essen

When the Lion Feeds

Book 1 in the Courtney Series

''Something always dies when the lion feeds and yet there is meat for those that follow him.' The lion is Sean, hero of this tremendous drama of the men who took possession of South Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.'

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The Sound of Thunder

Book 2 in the Courtney Series

'The Sound of Thunder 'The game was war. The prize was a land. The penalty of defeat was death. . .' The Sound of Thunder is an epic of the Anglo-Boer War and the peace which followed.'

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