Corinne picked up the watch, which glinted in the sunshine. It may only have been gold-plated but it was undeniably ostentatious. It wasn’t the kind of watch you would expect the son of a docker to be wearing in the sixties. ‘This was the very first present I ever bought your dad …’ she began.
Another Way to Fall
Enjoyed Amanda’s short story? Look out for her next novel, ANOTHER WAY TO FALL, published September 2013
If you could write your own happy ending, what would it say?
This is the story of Emma’s life
For three long years, she has battled with illness, enduring everything with bravery and always with hope. Then one day Emma is told that they’ve reached the end of the road. While her family and friends are thrown into denial, anger and grief, Emma suddenly realises that with so much left undone, she must find a way to live the life she has always dreamed of.
This is a story about happy endings
Emma begins to write the story of the life she has always wanted to live and something miraculous starts to happen. As her body starts to weaken, the lines between fiction and reality start to blur and her story takes on a life of its own. And as her story gains in strength, Emma and those who cherish her discover that even in death, there is life.
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Yesterday’s Sun
Amanda’s first novel, Yesterday’s Sun, was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection, and was inspired by the tragic death of her own son, at just three years old.
How could you ever choose between your own life and the life of your child?
Newly-weds Holly and Tom have just moved into an old manor house in the picturesque English countryside. When Holly discovers a moondial in the overgrown garden and its strange crystal mechanism, little does she suspect that it will change her life forever. For the moondial has a curse.
Each full moon, Holly can see into the future – a future which holds Tom cradling their baby daughter, Libby, and mourning Holly’s death in childbirth …
Yesterday’s Sun 978-0-00-744591-2
About the Author
Amanda Brooke is a single mum in her forties who lives in Liverpool with her teenage daughter Jessica. It was only when her young son was diagnosed with cancer that Amanda began to develop her writing, recording her family’s journey in a journal and through poetry. When Nathan died in 2006 at just three years old, Amanda was determined that his legacy would be one of inspiration not devastation. Her first novel, Yesterday’s Sun, was inspired by her experiences of motherhood and her understanding of how much a mother would be willing to sacrifice for the life of her child. It was selected as a Richard and Judy Book Club Pick in spring 2012.
Also by Amanda Brooke
Yesterday’s Sun
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Another Way to Fall
Copyright
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2013
Copyright © Amanda Brooke 2013
Jacket layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013
Cover photograph © Mark Owen / Trevillion Images
Amanda Brooke asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
Ebook Edition ISBN: 9780007522187
Version 2013-07-15
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