The Measure

One early winter’s morning, a teenage boy is found lying outside the gates of a monastery. The monks take him in, and eventually, in terrible distress, he tells them that he has killed his father. This story follows the life of the boy’s father and the discovery the boy makes about his father’s past.

Daphne H Ellis is a retired teacher. She has a degree in divinity and worked with Cardinal Hume’s committee for Catholic Jewish Relations to implement the changes in the RC-Church post Vatican two. After retiring she helped at a preschool for two- to four-year-olds and joined a creative writing group. She lived for some years in Vienna, enjoying the musical life of the city and endeavouring to learn German. Daphne now lives in Kent.