Fortunate by Andrew Jh Sharp
Beth Jenkins is a young locum doctor and prides herself on helping her patients reframe the story of their lives – nudging them towards more optimistic narratives – but her own story is stuck. Her husband has had a stroke, disastrously altering his personality, and she’s trapped in a life of duty and loneliness. Beth is semi-bereaved and will be for decades. On the other hand she knows, in theory, that there are millions of lives possible to live. Could it be that, by a quirk of fate, she’s in the wrong life? Should she flee, make a new start? It would have to be somewhere far away, somewhere so out of the way and hazardous that no one would risk looking for her – somewhere like Zimbabwe, where she might find the person (part real, part fantasy) she’s named Safari Man. But she has a career, of sorts, has responsibilities and she’s twenty-eight-and-a-half – far too old to run away from home. Then she comes across a poem: ‘The day comes when they have to declare the great Yes.’ She makes her choice...
'UnputdownableAn outstanding novel of love, courage and dangerous intrigue.' -- Margaret Kaine
Andrew JH Sharp is a writer and a medical doctor. He has lived and worked in both sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. His first novel, The Ghosts of Eden, won the 2010 Waverton Good Read Award and was short-listed for the 2011 International Rubery Book Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783060016 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783060018 |
| Title | Fortunate |
| Author | Andrew Jh Sharp |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Troubador Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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