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After Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summonses a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn't alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background - one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle? After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms' lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle's malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle's marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.

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November 27, 2020
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5.83 x 0.67 x 8.27 inches
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1913294943
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ TSL Publications (November 27, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 297 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913294943
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913294946
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.83 x 0.67 x 8.27 inches

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Roberta Eaton Cheadle is a South African writer and poet specialising in historical, paranormal, and horror novels and short stories. She is an avid reader in these genres and her writing has been influenced by famous authors including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Amor Towles, Stephen Crane, Enrich Maria Remarque, George Orwell, Stephen King, and Colleen McCullough.

Roberta has short stories and poems in several anthologies and has two published novels:

* Through the Nethergate, a historical supernatural fantasy; and

* A Ghost and His Gold, a historical paranormal novel set in South Africa.

Roberta has ten children’s books published under the name Robbie Cheadle.

Roberta was educated at the University of South Africa where she achieved a Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1996 and a Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1997. She was admitted as a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2000.

Roberta has worked in corporate finance from 2001 until the present date and has written seven publications relating to investing in Africa. She has won several awards over her 20-year career in the category of Transactional Support Services.

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Pete Springer

Well-Researched Historical Fiction Read

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021

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A Ghost and His Gold is a complex read with dual timelines more than a hundred years apart. Author Roberta Eaton Cheadle initially starts in modern times with Michelle and Tom, who host a dinner party in their home with work acquaintances and friends. The events connecting the timelines are the Second Anglo Boer War in South Africa between the Boers and the British. During the party, they begin playing around with a Ouija board. That's when things start to go off the rails as they discover they are sharing their house with ghosts.

Two ghosts, Pieter and Robert, encounter each other on opposing sides during the war. Pieter, a Boer farmer by trade, and Robert, a British soldier, make brief appearances in the home. Michelle is the only one who can see them. Haunting the house as well is a poltergeist named Estelle. She is Pieter's daughter from his first marriage, a secret unknown to her until much later on. She harbors resentment and anger for men, in particular. Despite having evil intentions, I found myself empathetic toward Estelle for all of the horrible things that happened while she was still a girl. While her father is at war, Estelle lives with her stepmother, Marta, and her two stepsisters. Marta is easily the least likable character in the book because she shows no love toward Estelle and blames her as the victim of a sexual assault.
Estelle plots her revenge toward Tom, as he has a dark past.

Tom is another villainous character who seeks redemption for a sexual assault and murder that he commits. Estelle hates Tom and haunts him in his dreams, and attempts to harm him physically.

The history of the war was somewhat complicated to follow, but Cheadle has done her research in writing this book. She includes many footnotes and sources for her information.

One of the more intriguing elements of the book was that Robert, Pieter, and Estelle couldn't move on to the other side until they showed forgiveness and understanding of each other's positions and points of view. This is not a light read by any means, but it kept my attention throughout. Readers gain a sense of how horrific life was in the concentration camps.

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Joy Shelton-York

A historical fiction intertwined with a present day paranormal

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2021

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This book is like a story within a story, each written in different styles. It begins in the present in a town in South Africa. Michelle who just moved into her new home with her husband Tom, begins to see shadows and experiences unexplained things that lead her to believe her house is haunted. At a dinner party, her friend Alice suggests they bring out a Ouija board as entertainment. The results reveal the name of a ghost named Pieter who says he is there to guard his gold. Despite a sudden explosion of bottles, no one takes the events seriously but Michelle. It doesn’t take long for two other ghosts to appear, one with dangerous intentions. After speaking to one, she realizes they are from the late 1800’s. That is where her research begins to find out why these ghosts are stuck in her home. The story then begins to alternate between the ghost's account of events of the first and second Anglo Boers Wars that shaped their lives, and how it relates to Michelle’s own marriage crisis.
The amount of research and detail Ms. Cheadle put into her accounts of the 1st and 2nd Anglo Boer Wars and the effects it had on the soldiers (both sides, British and Boer), families, women, children, laborers, towns, etc. is amazing. The authenticity of the way of life in the 1880’s and 1890’s before and after the wars was gripping. I was in tears as the three ghost recounted each of their stories. Because some of the terminology was uncommon for today, there are footnotes to explain exactly what that means which I found sometimes disrupted the flow. At times I felt the level of detail about different commanders and battles not directly related to the characters was a little distracting.
This is a well written account of a historical event told in a clever and entertaining way. The characters are carefully developed and believable. I found it very moving and really enjoyed this book.

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An Intense and Dramatic Foray into the 2nd Anglo-Boer War

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2022

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One thing a reader very quickly learns on opening A Ghost and His Gold is that the author, Roberta Eaton Cheadle is an excellent writer, loves her history, and is possessed of an almost preternatural capacity for painstaking research. Her clear intention in this novel is to weave a factual history of the 2nd Anglo Boer War into a fictional history of the lives of characters of her own making. In this, she succeeds admirably.

She succeeds brilliantly, too, in creating very real characters with whom the reader can easily empathise (or dislike, or feel contempt for), in a story that grabs the reader’s interest. It helps that the story has an extra twist involving a modern-day couple tortured by a vicious poltergeist and haunted by a couple of conflicted ghosts, and who have a friend who is psychic and reads tarot cards. Some aspects of the war elements are gut-wrenching, particularly near the end where women and children are herded, almost Nazi-like, into wretched, disease-infested camps, with little or no food and water, and bereft of even the basic comforts. And the rape of one of the young key characters, and the ending of her particular story, are absolutely horrific. So, great writing, great characters, great story ....what’s not to like? Nothing, really. This is a very good book, particularly for readers who enjoy historical fiction.

But I have a couple of issues with it that I can’t shake off. After reading the book, I found myself wondering which should have priority in a historical fiction novel - the story or the history? When one reflects on Gone with the Wind, is the memory focused on the American Civil War or on the turbulent affair between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara? I ponder, too, the basic principle of fiction writing which demands that the story be driven continually forward and not allowed to flag. That makes me question the author’s choice to open her novel with pages and pages of potted histories of military characters involved in the Boer War, followed by pages and pages of dates relating to the various battles of the war. None of this, I am sure, will stick in the readers’ minds. There is, instead, a danger of losing the reader before he or she reaches the actual story.

Cheadle’s knowledge of the 2nd Anglo Boer War is phenomenal. The details she offers of dozens of minor skirmishes or large battles, are extraordinary. This would be perfect for a history book. But there is a story here that is stopped in its tracks several times so that the writer can pursue, in almost infinite detail, many minor confrontations between Brits and Boers, that inevitably begin to merge into each other and leave the reader’s mind cluttered with an excess of the minutiae that inhabit these events.

And there, for me, is the rub. Fiction, by its nature, demands a plot that absorbs, has its share of ups and downs, tensions and quiet moments, but thrusts unflaggingly towards its climax. Here, the never-ending focus of the characters on the war – in their conversations, in their thoughts, in their fears about the possible failures of plans and strategies – all tend to militate against normal reader expectation, and might, indeed, lead to the deathly resort of skipping over pages.

As for the ghost story. Having barely been made aware of the existence of the ghosts, indeed before seeing them do any real haunting, I found myself sharing their actual past lives as real people. Ghosts are supposed to be ... what? Scary, preternatural, tenebrous, unfathomable? Presenting them, via their previous lives, as real and nice people, virtually eliminates any vestige of the eerie from their ghostly behaviours. Quite simply, it takes the spookiness out of the spooks.

I do regret sounding so critical of what is an excellent piece of work. I truly believe that a decisive, determined editor, with an eye for pacing, structure and relevance, could polish this into a worthwhile and memorable novel of the Boer War. That is not to say that it isn’t eminently readable in its present form, and I have no doubt that there are many readers, particularly history buffs, who will love it just as it is.

Anita Dawes

not to play around with a Ouija board!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2021

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A Ghost and his Gold is based in South Africa.

I was expecting a jolly good ghost story, but I wasn’t disappointed, for this story is so much more than that.
An interesting combination of the paranormal entwined with history. History that had to be closely and accurately researched to ensure that all the details are portrayed sensitively.

In the beginning of the story, we learn about two ghosts, soldiers who fought and died on opposite sides of the second Boer war. We learn a lot about this war from these two ghosts. Robert, a British soldier, and a Boer called Pieter. Their heart-breaking duel story is brilliantly written, as is the sad story of Estelle, the third and very vengeful ghost and daughter of Pieter.

Far from ordinary, this story is a complicated tale of revenge.
I wish I could forget the horrors of the Boer War, but I will never forget these character’s.

Just remind me never to play with a Ouija board!

Shaun Redden

A Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2021

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What an exciting read and for me, a passionate Englishman, a worrying one. Wars are never a clean righteous fight. War is nasty and evil if one side wants to win. With the second Boer War Great Britain’s army was sent to retrieve what it lost in the First War, but this time it had the lure of gold and precious stones to lead the way. This book is not just a history book listing Great British victories, no, it deals with much more than that.

A young couple move into a house built on the site of a farm owned by one of the original fighting Boers. She’s convinced that’s the reason for her nightmares. As the story unfolds we are treated to two soldiers giving their views of the War in which they both died.

Just, when you think you have this story at your mercy along comes a third ghost, only this one wants revenge!

There is the sure and steady hand of a master storyteller effortlessly blending all these people’s lives together giving us, the privileged readers, a powerful tale brilliantly put together.

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Toni Pike

A dramatic paranormal historical story set in South Africa

Reviewed in Australia on August 17, 2021

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I’m familiar with Roberta Cheadle’s wonderful Sir Chocolate series for children (written under the name of Robbie Cheadle), and I was looking forward to reading one of her adult fiction books. I was not disappointed with this dramatic and enthralling story set in South Africa and dealing with the Second Anglo Boer War.

This is a moving supernatural thriller that weaves two intertwining stories together. There is a modern-day story about a married couple, Michelle and Tom Cleveland, whose lives are horrifically impacted by a poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. The story switches between past and present. When we go back to the past, we learn a great deal about the Second Anglo Boer War and one farming family at the time.

I knew a little bit about that war because Australia was involved on the British side. But I had no idea what a cruel and brutal conflict it was, and the horrific ordeal suffered by so many people at the time, including in concentration camps. The history is magnificently brought to life in this very intense story, particularly involving a Boer farmer, Pieter, and his daughter Estelle, who has a very tragic life. It also deals with emotional abuse and trauma within family relationships. Estelle’s story is supremely sad, and that spart of the story will stay in my memory for a long time.

The modern story I found to be a real page-turner, as Michelle’s husband descends into madness and has all sorts of other problems as secrets from his past are revealed. The problems within their relationship are very complex and disturbing.

The ghosts from the past have a devastating impact on the modern characters, but the two stories weave together brilliantly. I didn’t know how the modern couple could possibly resolve their differences, but I was swept along as the author managed to bring everything to a very satisfying conclusion.

If you are interested in history and enjoy mysteries, then this book would be a very good choice. I give it a resounding five stars.

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