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Synopsis
From the winner of the 2010 Waverton Good Read Award comes another good read. Beth Jenkins – locum doctor, semi-bereaved wife – runs away from home at the age of twenty-eight and a half and becomes heroine of a revolution. Locked into a lonely future by a cruel twist of fate, Beth reaches breaking point, leaves her husband, and flees to faraway Zimbabwe. But there she finds herself at the centre of a deadly struggle for the ownership of a farm. From a guest of honour at the President’s table to a disastrous decision that betrays a good man, her fresh start threatens to end in catastrophe. Does the land, and its painted rocks, hold clues to atonement and re-found love? Fortunate is an intelligent, moving novel with a gripping plot about how to defy fate and about the relationship we have with the land we live on.
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About the Author
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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Fortunate
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Signed by Author(Unverified). Seller Inventory # wbs6995052201
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Troubador Publishing, United Kingdom, Market Harborough, 2013
ISBN 10: 1783060018
ISBN 13: 9781783060016
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Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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 shes 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, shes 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) shes named Safari Man. But she has a career, of sorts, has responsibilities and shes 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR005964453
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