A Year to Remember

IT WAS LATE SPRING, 1972. THE STEWART FAMILY'S WORLD WAS IN TURMOIL---a chaos of passport applications, airline reservations, and packing crates. The six of them were making ready for a a journey into the unknown. Gil was at it again. At the tender age of 35 he was on schedule for his third mid-life crisis in five years. FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON HE HAD CONCLUDED HE WAS MEANT TO BE A WRITER. Having settled on a suitable locale in which to work, he was prepared to move his thoroughly confused family to England, where he could pursue his dream of becoming a novelist. IN TIME, HOWEVER, HIS WRITING BECAME AN AFTERTHOUGHT. were all around them--in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Germany, and Ireland. The children were making friends. Mom and Dad were expanding their own social circle. All of them were learning to be at home in England. If settling in was hard, leaving that special place would be even harder.