Hello Again,
For this year's entry, I have edited the structure and submitted 3,000 words from the opening chapters for Parts 1 and 2.
Part 1 - Unprecedented
Looks into the world of Wendy, a Sussex strong-willed woman, and the imaginary conversations she has with her recently deceased Mum, and the relationship that unfolded with her Father before and during the COVID pandemic and his subsequent drowning in the River Medway. Wendy converses with her Mum as her small business is excluded from all Government Support Packages through the pandemic, which took its toll and led her to take an overdose of prescribed sleeping tablets, only to wake and find herself in the A&E Corridor and get a taxi home.
With her world and career shattered, Wendy hears that 37 other self-employed business owners took their lives. Wendy has to take a second chance at life, even though her head, heart, and soul are broken. This cannot be the way her career ends.
Part 2 – Everyone Needs A Wendy
Wendy relocates to Somerset to mend. She finally receives the healthcare needed and learns to find peace and security for the first time in her 50 years. The reader follows Wendy's imaginary conversations with both her deceased parents and the catalogue of memories, music, and laughter that come to her as she goes through their belongings, from the time they met in 1962 in Newark and her Father's RAF career taking them to Cyprus, to her own memories they kept of her 1970s council estate upbringing and comprehensive 1980s schooling. Wendy explores her global career choices over having a family. Or did she really get a choice? Is life just sometimes......life.
I hope you enjoy
Wendy
