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Blurb:
Four strangers are brought
together who share one thing in common: they've reached a pivotal moment in
their lives and after this journey nothing will ever be the same again. From
the sorrow which follows joy, the love which turns to betrayal, rejection which
finally finds the door to acceptance, each will discover that the only journey
which really matters is the one which leads to survival.
Buy links:
Tirgearr Publishing: http://www.tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/MacLennan_Julie/before-we-say-goodbye.htm
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Excerpt:
‘I’m leaving you!’
The young woman at the end of
the phone screamed in fury as Damien Hunt calmly rose from his desk and walked
towards the window.
The late afternoon sun was
slipping silently below the horizon in a last brilliant blaze of crimson
defiance. The irony was not lost on him as he witnessed the magnificent rays
disappearing from sight at exactly the same moment as Stella Milner was doing
her best to elicit a response – any response – from him.
‘Do you hear me? Are you even
listening? What’s the matter with you?’
She was almost hysterical
now, and he could tell that his continued refusal to answer her was only
inflaming an already volatile situation. But not for the first time, he
recognised it as his escape route and said nothing.
‘Damien? Damien! Will you
answer me?’
The silence on the line was
deafening and Damien could hear her start to cry.
He closed his eyes. There was
a part of him which felt guilty, responsible for the situation in which they
now found themselves. But only a part of him.
Mostly what he felt was a
dreadful and overwhelming weariness.
It was a feeling which was
unfamiliar and yet it had crept up on him lately, invading his thoughts during
random moments and making him doubt everything. Including himself.
And now it was telling him
that there was no point in prolonging this conversation.
He let the phone fall to his
side as Stella continued to rage against him.
They both knew that she was
right. She wanted only what she deserved. There was only one problem.
He couldn’t give it to her.
Couldn’t give her the
commitment and the stability that she hadn’t cared about in the beginning but
now seemed to crave. He couldn’t give it, and more importantly he didn’t want
to give it. Not to her. Not to anyone. Not ever.
Her voice became louder and he
reluctantly raised the phone to his ear again.
‘Can’t you even speak to me
now, Damien? What do you think I am? Some little tramp? A one night stand? You
really think that you’re better than me, don’t you, Damien?’
Still he remained silent.
When she spoke again, her
voice was lower and she sounded more in control.
‘Okay, if you won’t speak to
me on the phone, you leave me no choice. We’ll just have to have this
conversation in front of everyone in your office. I’m coming round.’
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Author Bio:
Julie MacLennan lives and
works in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
This is her first published
novel although she has been writing for as long as she can remember.
Some of her earliest memories
are of sitting by her grandfather’s chair and being fascinated by the books he
read. Later, encouraged by her grandmother’s gift for writing and her mother’s
imagination, she began to transfer her own short stories and poetry to paper.
Her shared love of football
with her father inspired her to write the poem “Farewell, Our Friend” which was
read out and televised around the world at George Best’s funeral in late 2005.
More recently, she was
honoured to be asked by the Royal British Legion if they could use another of
her poems, “The Promise”, as part of their commemoration of the First World
War.
She is now working on her
second novel.
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