There's Always Tomorrow E-Book

Emilie Defreyne

• Herausgeber: G2 Rights
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Emilie's story is immensely readable but, in many ways, it's a difficult one. A strange childhood by the sea in rural Essex, an eccentric, intellectual mother and a reserved father gave this baby boomer, growing up in a changing world, an oddly skewed perspective. Moves to Surrey and the busy, prosperous south-east proved to be a mixed blessing. Articled to a firm of solicitors, Emilie met and fell in love with a young barrister. But it was not to be; their heartbreaking farewell on Waterloo Bridge, beautifully recorded here, seems to have sealed Emilie's fate. What made her then enter into a disastrous marriage with a sick and vindictive man? Like many other women, even today, Emilie gave up a career, took part-time work and became a carer for her husband. His response - anger, envy and greed - and her momentous decision to leave him form the core of this salutary tale. Her purpose is to warn others that no hell is worth enduring just to avoid the stigma of failure. And from failure the author has plucked success, with new interests, a renewed sense of self and, in Hilaire Belloc's warm words, laughter and the love of friends.

Leseprobe

There’sAlways Tomorrow

There’sAlways Tomorrow

EMILIE DEFREYNE

G2 RIGHTS LTD

KENT

There’s Always Tomorrow

Copyright © Emilie Defreyne 2012

First edition published in the UK in September 2012

© G2 Rights Limited 2012

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eBook Edition ISBN :978-1-909040-87-8

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To my friends whose love and support have made this book possible, and to at least one person for whom I hope my recollections will have given hope and encouragement.

Contents

Copyright

Prologue

Quiet Beginnings

From Essex to Surrey

A Defining Moment

The Journey Continues

For Better or for Worse

For Worse

The Storms Breaks

Finding Myself Again with Laughter and the Love of Friends

Prologue

Early on a grey frosty February morning in 1998 I stood watching as the cold deep water of the river carried ever further from me the ashes of my late mother which a few minutes earlier I had scattered upon the surface. A late winter leaf fluttered down to join the grim procession.

I am numb with cold and the weariness of loss. I stare blankly as the last physical evidence of the woman who gave me life disappears into the low hanging mist, just as I had stood some fifteen years earlier with her by my side bidding farewell to my father.

They are both gone now, and I stand truly and completely alone in my grief and the personal torment that dominates my life.

Although it was with a heavy heart that I turned away to face another day, I vowed then that if I ever found a way through the unhappiness surrounding me I would write a book the overwhelming aim of which would be to give hope and encouragement to those in despair, together with the belief that no matter how hopeless and desperate today may seem – there’s always tomorrow!