Over twenty years ago i found myself and my children leaving home to live in a women’s refuge. It was the hardest time of my life. At the time I looked for books to read about other people who had suffered from domestic violence, but I could not find many I could really relate to.
That’s when I first decided I would write my own book. I wanted to read a story that would give me some reassurance I was doing the right thing, and that everything would work itself out.
I knew I had been through a tough time, and I just felt compelled to write about it.
Gail P Griffiths is a New Adult author who loves time travel, romance and adventure. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario but has spent most of her life in Nova Scotia. Reading and art have been her lifelong passions. She spent her early years pursuing a career in art but changed her focus to journalism in her mid-thirties. An avid reader with a lively imagination, fiction writing was a natural progression in retirement. When she’s not writing or researching for her writing, she’s busy with her many hobbies or travelling with her husband and their two Bengal cats in their small motor home.
Her debut novel resulted from a friend’s writing challenge. A two-page essay blossomed into a seventy thousand word book, which led to volumes two and three. Her debut novel Remember the Future is available on Amazon, September 21st, 2019.
Her mother didn’t think it was a worthwhile hobby and forbade her from making childish stories in her journal.
This only led her to write even more, but in secret.
She got in trouble when her teacher caught her writing a story instead of taking down lecture notes. But instead of telling her parents, her teacher told her that she should pursue being a writer when she grows up. This was the first time she had heard of such a profession.
When V.C. Buckley finally did grow up and pick up her old pen and dusty notebook, she began to write again and never looked back…
Another wonderful and humorous instalment in the Guesthouse on the Green series as Mammy and Moira travel Vietnam.
I love the series and can't wait for book four!
A quick but emotional read - reading about the cruelty to the dog was heartbreaking but this was a lovely tale of the love and healing that animals can bring to our lives.
I would have given five stars but for the missed typos - a few t...
I get the impression that this could be a nice story but I've had to give up after forcing myself to go as far as 15% of the way through. If this novel has ever been near a remotely professional editor then the author was conned.
Chapte...
Another very enjoyable story but with a few niggles, hence the four stars rather than five. Maybe it's because I was tired but the editing issues grated on me more than in the first story and, do people really generally believe that 'ear...
