{"title":"Jay Aston","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"orphans-of-an-angel-book-jay-aston-9798670189910","title":"Orphans of an Angel","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49552478568721,"sku":"GOR010789355","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B08DSTHK7V.jpg?v=1750969936"},{"product_id":"orphans-of-an-angel-book-jay-aston-9781393233367","title":"Orphans of an Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt midnight, Evelyn Dalton became an Angel. Her four boys became orphans. A tragic, but true story of a mother's struggle to survive, burdened by destitution and deteriorating health. Misdiagnosed symptoms leaves her hospitalized in a coma. Following the misdiagnosis of her symptoms, she is placed on a life support machine but days later, internal haemorrhaging continues unabated. The outflow of blood after the operation cannot be stemmed and she is unable to regain consciousness and subsides into a coma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn drifts towards a slow but peaceful death. In that instance, her four boys become orphans. The future of her for boys turns to a battle for their own survival. It appears their only salvation is to be cared for by foster parents, in a foster home or a dubious future in a Children;'s Home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a heartless act of selfishness, their father abandons them to be with his long-time mistress. An excerpt from the book epitomizes the cataclysmic event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seemed dad didn't actually care where we lived, or how we lived, or even if we lived. We seemed to be an inconvenience. His life and love was pre-occupied elsewhere. Our lives had changed. Even orphans had some kind of love from someone. We had no-one to love us. Only the distant memories of love remained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeless, motherless, fatherless and destitute, they were all split up once more. Fate seemed to be against them, since 1962. Seven years of bad luck began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGOODREADS Review USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJWalch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.0 out of 5 stars This memoir is pure dynamite \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I offered to read and review Orphans of An Angel by Jay Aston, I had never heard of Jay Aston. I've read many personal memoirs, some are really well written and make for interesting reading, while others are... well, let's just say boring. Jay's blurb hooked me and reeled me in and I'm glad because Orphans of An Angel is one of the well written, interesting ones. I found Jay's memoir to be very well writte. This story, the way Jay tells it, does great honor to his mom, Doris.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough I had no idea who Jay Aston was when I began reading this heart wrenching memoir, I now feel as if I have known him and his brothers all my life. The love that Doris had for her boys and the pain bestowed on them by their father who abandoned them for another woman leaps off the pages. Any reader of these words who has even a modicum of empathy will experience that love and pain right along with them.\u003cbr\u003eThe way Jay brings this memoir to a close will... well, read it to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGOODREADS BOOK REVIEW (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is always something compelling when you read a true story and this one hooks you in. The content and flow will keep you reading the tragic circumstances until the bitter end. This is the kind of sad tale which will grip you and bring out your mothering instincts or protective shield. You just want to make it all better if you are a mum yourself. I do recommend this book, there was something about it which drew me in from start to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGOODREADS BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAug 11, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVicky Peplow rated it 5* An amazing read\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWow  What a book. I have had a couple of late nights reading this book but it was so worth it. This poor family back in the 60's went through every hardship that any family could ever handle plus more. This book takes you on a roller-coaster of emotions throughout this book. I highly recommend it as it's well worth a read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFEEDBACK (from emails)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFAB READ Get the tissues ready. I was gripped. Could not put down this book. Recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRIVETING - Difficult to put down. A very moving storyline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWHAT A STORY  Heart rendering story buy the book and box of tissues you will need them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUNDAY LUNCH  Couldn't put the book down. 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Her elation plummets to anguish when husband Eddie reveals his involvement in a relationship with another woman, fifteen years younger. From this pivotal moment onwards in 1962, Evelyn's life spirals out of control. Her fate is sealed by cataclysmic consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn explosion at the Yorkshire colliery causes life changing injuries to coal-miner Eddie. As he leaves hospital months later, disabilities prevent him from returning to work and has no alternative but to leave his job. As a consequence, the Coal Board evicts Evelyn from the home she rents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEddie abandons the family for his mistress, and plunges Evelyn into a catastrophic and chaotic life of despair, destitution and homelessness. With heart-wrenching effect, her four boys are forced to live away from her. She feels as though a jagged knife had thrust into her heart. For the pain and cruelty he has created, Evelyn knows Eddie's conscience would haunt him to the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith deteriorating health, Evelyn's tortured existence plummets to one of survival, engulfed by anguish and misery. With three boys and a new baby to bring up alone, her life is in turmoil. Social Services raise concerns about her ability to care for her family, implying their imminent involvement. Poverty-stricken, she struggles to cope, and vows that Social Services will never wrench her boys from her. Their destiny will not be in a children' home of dubious repute. Evelyn relies heavily on her seventy-six-year-old mother, and when her mother's health deteriorates, she runs out of options. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn, already impoverished and burdened by undiagnosed severe stomach problems, becomes critically ill. Amidst excruciating pains, the hospital admits her for emergency surgery and falls into an unexpected coma. A life-support machine is Evelyn's only hope of survival, but she is unable to regain consciousness. Internal haemorrhaging goes undetected as doctors cannot stem the blood loss. She now loses more blood than she receives through constant transfusion. Her eighteen-year-old son suspects negligence and incompetence, creating acrimonious conflicts with hospital consultants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough connected to a life-support machine, her body continues to weaken by the hour. Her son's suspicions of incompetence appear justified. His mum's survival becomes a stark choice; allow his mother to die with dignity or condemn her to life in oblivion aided by life-support. Wrestling with his conscience, he sanctions switching off the machine. Evelyn loses her fight for life within hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcrimony erupts at Evelyn's funeral as Eddie and his mistress pay their last respects. Each of Evelyn's sons lay a single red carnation on her coffin. To her dying day, she prevented their incarceration in a children's home. Evelyn's four sons become motherless by cruel fate and fatherless by his own selfish volition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeless, with no-one to care for the youngest two boys, the tragedy deepens. Social Services take control of their destiny. They are led screaming into a children's home. The youngest, aged four, spends twelve years' incarceration. On the anniversary of her passing, Eddie can no longer deal with his own guilty conscience that haunts him, and takes his own life. Evelyn's prediction comes to fruition. His conscience did haunt him to to the grave. \u003c\/p\u003eHomeless, motherless, fatherless, destitute and unloved, Evelyn's four young boys lost everything. 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