H. Obermeier, Renée ..., the Abbé Breuil and Miss C. L. Mowbray
at the entrance to the prehistoric cave of Altamira, in Spain.

Everybody has two grandmothers but who were they before they met their husbands to be? In the process of pursuing his own artistic quest and in struggling to survive in a foreign country, the author suddenly finds himself confronted with questions concerning one of his grandmothers. During the early Thirties, a young archaeologist, Miss C. L. Mowbray, worked for Hugo Obermeier, who in 1908, was one of the finders of the Venus of Willendorf, found on the banks of the Danube and now housed in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. In the first half of the book, the author's story intertwines with that of his grandmother's as he researches on what contemporary science has to say about our Ice Age ancestors and on his grandmother's work in Paris and in the cave of Altamira.
In the second half of the book, as the clouds of war gather over the European isthmus for a second time, a Miss G. A. Percy walks down the street of a small town in South West England. As always heads turn but this time, the wake of her passing leaves behind a young bank clerk who has become resolved that she is to be the one. Returning to where his grandparents spent much of their married life, the author finds himself stumbling on the foundations of his own artistic identity. Back in Vienna, he resurrects a long-forgotten childhood dream and as he resolves to realise it, the quest started out on at the beginning of the book is resumed. Two grandmothers; two very different gifts.

In progress.