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"Are you really thinking of doing the C to
C, or are you just winding him up?"
Linda opened her mouth, then shut it. The Coast
to Coast walk had been only one of several options she'd
thrown into the frame during Friday night's brief tiff, but
because Jim had latched onto the most extreme, to rally the
support of his daughter, she decided to play along with it.
"Yes. I'm serious...
Annoyed at yet again being taken for
granted, fifty-year-old Linda refuses to accompany her
successful, executive husband on a Rotary trip. She hopes that
Jim will reassure her of his love by changing his plans to
join her on a walking holiday. He doesn't and the more he
tries to manipulate the situation, using friends and their
adult children, the more she digs in her heels.
Setting off on her own to walk from the east to west coast, across wild
open moors, fertile dales and the mountainous Lake District,
she finds the ups and downs and climatic changes trigger
reflections on her life and
prompt her to consider her future, an outlook which totally changes when she
meets Nick, another lone walker.
But the walk, like life, is not a clearly defined path,
it is full of challenges and decisions: the way is sometimes
an easy stroll, at others a hard climb for little reward,
sometimes it offers dangerous diversions, or is shrouded in
the mist of past experience. As the walk progresses Linda
discovers that life offers more than one route to happiness,
but each path carries its risks and its consequences.
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A likeable heroine who deals with a
marital crisis in a novel way. I strongly recommend you make
this journey of discovery with her.
Benita Brown
Best Selling Author of Northumberland Sagas
The author paints a
skilful portrait of a woman facing her own mid-life crisis...
The characters are all well drawn and credible... Beautifully
painted, I felt I could enjoy the lovely scenery with them...
There is no romantic idyll described, as the foul weather that
can often be a part of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales,
forms an integral part of the plot.
Extracted from the
Romantic Novelists'
Association Reader's report
An entirely satisfying
read: the reader feels they have walked with Linda, but
without the aching feet and limbs, and as she prepares to
return home we are on tenterhooks as to which way her
affections will turn...
Laura Longrigg,
MBA
Literary Agents Limited
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