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Phillip Rock

Biography

Phillip Rock

Born in Hollywood, California, Phillip Rock lived in England with his family until the blitz of 1940. He spent his adult years in Los Angeles and published three novels before the Passing Bells series: Flickers, The Dead in Guanajuato, and The Extraordinary Seaman. He died in 2004.

Phillip Rock

Books by Phillip Rock

The Passing Bells
by Phillip Rock - English, Historical Fiction

The guns of August are rumbling in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, the parties and romances play on. But the Great War will not be denied, as what begins for the high-bred Grevilles as a glorious adventure soon takes its toll—shattering the household's tranquillity.