Dappled by Lisa Brown

Dappled by Lisa Brown

Some people leave you forever changed. And maybe some wounds are just too big to heal. But Jane is coming to realise that confronting her past is the only hope she has of saving herself.

Jane has a skin condition, vitiligo, which makes her look a little different. But at least she's become pretty skilled in the art of camouflage.

On the surface of things, Jane leads a good life. She's a health professional with an active social life, who meets lots of handsome, successful men... they just tend to be all the wrong ones.

Perhaps it's also because no one she meets will ever quite compare to who she once had.

Jane finds her mind frequently travels back to her younger years, back to when she lived in the coastal tree-lined town of Denmark in a timber cottage on stilts with her artistic mother, Colleen, who was beautiful, vibrant, larger than life - and deeply troubled.

She remembers the broken glass, mysterious cuts, and their isolation.

The storm cloud days.

But most vivid in Jane's recollections is that kind and goofy, crinkle-beamed boy who made her feel warm inside, who somehow made it all better. Try as she might, he'll always have a piece of her heart.

What the reviews are saying about Dappled:

Masterfully written and packed with insight, compassion, and hope. Brown tackles significant theme of self-worth with trenchantly serious message of mental health issues in her exceedingly moving, honest debut which tells the story of a woman struggling with her past and present traumas. This remarkable work of fiction from a very talented author is almost virtually perfect. - The Prairies Book Review

It is not often you find a book that so delicately tells the story of such hard topics, whilst weaving in a story of hope, love and overcoming. It is inspiring and fills the heart to the brim - Goodreads review, 5 stars

Stunningly Beautiful Novel. - Amazon review, 5 stars

I've heard people talk about the urge to hug certain books. Dappled has to be the most huggable book I've read. It is one of those rare books you just never want to let go of. - Amazon review, 5 stars

A beautiful book that will remain in your memory long after the last page is turned. - Amazon review, 5 stars

Written with heart, soul, wit and authenticity. - Amazon review, 5 stars

The characters are authentic and the author voice is as tender as their love. - Goodreads review, 5 stars

Lisa Brown is a partner in a wealth management firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in high-net-worth clients. Although Brown's clients are affluent, her own upbringing was far more modest. Raised by two schoolteachers in a rural farming town in upstate New York, Brown learned at the age of twelve how hard work translated into money, rising at six o'clock in the morning during her summer breaks to pick strawberries on a farm for twenty-five cents per quart. This perspective laid the foundation for the appreciation she has for money today. Brown's childhood experience is at the opposite end of the financial spectrum from her professional experience. Over the years, she has been alarmed and frustrated by the number of single women approaching her for financial advice who shared the same unsettling characteristic: a lack of self-confidence when it came to making money decisions. These women have relied on their fathers, husbands, or partners to handle money matters throughout their lives, taking a back seat to this critical part of their world, and then suddenly found themselves on their own. Scared. Lisa has taken two decades of experience in the financial services business to teach real-life money lessons to women in her Girl Talk, Money Talk book series. Her motivation is to educate women at an earlier age to take control of their finances, be prepared, and make wise decisions with their money that will have a profound effect on their entire lives. Brown's financial advice has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNBC.com, and Yahoo! Finance, and she is a regular columnist for Kiplinger's wealth-creation website. In 2015, Brown was named one of the ten young advisers under the age of forty to watch by Financial Advisor magazine. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband, three children, and Corgi.

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ISBN 13	9780646814728
ISBN 10	0646814729
Title	Dappled
Author	Lisa Brown
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Trigg Press
Year published	2020-02-02
Number of pages	308
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.