David Abbott and Catherine Glass Abbott wrote Share the Inheritance for young people who need a positive view of the past and real hope for the future and for wise adults who want to refresh their understanding of crucial and positive events in British history. This history is the deep root of the histories of America, Canada, and Australia.

Share the Inheritanceis is a brief and valuable description of exhilarating achievements. Rather than wallow in problems, it focuses on the gifts we have received from our forebears. The inspiration of Christianity and the influence of several cultures are directly addressed.

The book is packed with gold nuggets of information, biographies of the men and women who created the gifts, a timeline, a study guide and 125 beautiful and significant color images. Intriguing facts, for instance that the English language is far older than once believed, are footnoted.

The authors know how difficult it is to live without freedom, fair play, delight in reason, a covenant of justice between leader and people, equality of opportunity, and forgiveness, to name six of the 27 gifts.

Catherine saw tyranny firsthand in Eastern Europe. She received her degree in Classical Greek from Columbia University, New York, worked in publishing in the United States for twenty years and helped the homeless for seven years. David has practiced medicine in England, America and Canada for the last four decades. He believes in the principles of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. He is a father, grandfather, bell ringer and marathoner.

The men and women who helped to create the Inheritance were inspired by the 'Love that moves the sun and the other stars', by the desire for freedom and the thrill of exploration, by dire necessity and common sense, by creativity and compassion. Their stories are told in Share the Inheritance.

Physicist Freeman Dyson, once a Winchester scholar, now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, understood the book's appeal. He wrote, "I LIKE YOUR BOOK VERY MUCH, and will bring it with me the next time I visit my grandchildren."

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of the Church of England called Share the Inheritance a "SPLENDID and very useful publication."

The Baroness Cox of Queensbury, the founder of HART, who contributed the book's Foreword, wrote, "THERE IS. . .AN URGENT NEED TO RECREATE A VISION, which will preserve all that is best in our heritage. Share the Inheritance invokes that vision".

Share the Inheritance is available at P&G Wells Bookshop, 11 College Street, Winchester,
SO23 9LZ, 01962 852 016, at Trinity Episcopal Bookshop, Portland, Oregon, 503-222-9811,
and at AMAZON UK and AMAZON USA for the USA & CANADA.