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The Summer Garden and the Song: Harvest (Book 2) For the residents of Haddon Junction, who had brought in the New Year with the usual revelry and celebration, there was scant reason to expect 1959 to not come and go pretty much like any other year-with little of any consequence to remember it for.For some, though, and especially for Mick Neilson, now seventeen years old, it would be a year to never forget. This is a coming of age story; it is a love story-a story of loves gained, loves lost, and loves unconditional. Where The Summer Garden and the Song: The Circle of Life ended, The Summer Garden and the Song: Harvest begins. It is the continuation of the story of Mick Neilson, the Summer Garden, and a song.

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Born in Brantford, ON, Neil co-penned his first poem titled Tobacco Harvest, with a cousin while still in primary school. He began writing songs and playing guitar while attending high school at Burford District High School in the 1950s, the dawning era of rock and roll. Neil was also a 1960 Western Ontario Secondary School Honor Athlete. Neil's passion for writing poems, short stories, and songs continued while attending Waterloo Lutheran University - Waterloo University College, what is now known as Wilfred Laurier University. In 1964, Neil's graduating year, a student he'd been tutoring was taken with a poem Neil wrote titled The Last Night, and asked him to promise that, one day, he would write a novel. Fifty years later, The Summer Garden and the Song, fulfills that promise. Neil released his debut CD album No Looking Back in August 2007, and feels his music has allowed him to become the true messenger of his spirit and soul. His love song, There's Just the One and Only You became the love theme woven through the pages of his novel. Neil was named on the cover of the July 1, 2007 CASHBOX Magazine as one of the awesome indies gracing our Independent Charts every week , and two songs from Neil's debut CD reached #1 on the CASHBOX Country Chart. In 2008, Neil received the IAIA (International Academy of Independent Artists) Golden Kayak Award for Best Country Song 2007 - The Cowboy Song , and he was a nominee at the 2008 Hamilton Music Awards for New Country Recording of the Year for No Looking Back, and at the 2012 Hamilton Music Awards for Alt/Country Recording of the Year for his album What Difference Will It Make. Prior to embarking on his life-long dream of being a recording artist, and penning his long-postponed novel, Neil enjoyed a successful 35-year multi-faceted entrepreneurial business career in land development, investment and management, including the restoration of historical buildings, in addition to several other interesting endeavors he managed to squeeze into his spare time. In addition to The Summer Garden and the Song, scheduled to be published in 2016, Neil is recording three new studio albums also scheduled for release in 2016. Neil and his wife, Jean, live in Paris, ON and have two married daughters, Suzanne and Andrea, and six grandchildren. More information and photos of Neil can be found on his web site www.neilwyoung.com

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