Losing You - Atkins, Mary

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Résumé :
How do you rebuild your life after heartbreaking loss? It's 1963, and the world is changing. Kate Sinclair is a young mother of two small children. Married life with her dashing and successful husband, an amateur pilot, is all she had hoped it would be. The future looks bright… Until one ordinary day, a phone call with devastating news rips her world apart. But grief can be a great teacher. Desperate to feel loved again, Kate embarks on a disastrous affair which only adds to her inner turmoil. The strain on her battered soul eventually takes its toll and to compound her problems she is faced with a serious health challenge, one that will alter the course of her life. Can Kate find the courage to open her heart to love again, to reimagine her life, her dreams and her future in the wake of unbearable loss? Full of great wisdom and insight, gained from the author's own long and remarkable life, Losing You is an intensely moving, often funny story of triumph in the face of tragedy, the redemptive power of love, and of how you can find yourself in the most surprising ways.

Biographie:
Mary Atkins has assumed many roles in her long and eventful life: daughter, wife, mother, widow, flight attendant, home economist, mentor, public speaker and author. She took up writing when most of her peers would consider their working life over. Mary's writing draws on many of her rich life's experiences, adding a lived authenticity to her stories. Mary is the author of A Journey of Creative Healing and Finding Your Voice: Ten Steps to Successful Public Speaking and is also an award-winning speaker who currently travels the world lecturing on cruise ships. www.maryatkinsauthor.com