The Other Girl is a fourteen-chapter novel that tells the story of Jacinta, a young girl who grew up in a modest English family, who tried to convey to her from an early age the idea that a woman was destined for marriage and to look after the family. The premature death of her father, due to a heart attack, will be the spring that will push Jacinta to detach herself from values that did not belong to her, and to live free and independent. However, the two men in her life, Will and Carl, whom she loved by giving them all of herself, will always make her the second choice, the other girl. In...

Christine was born into a dysfunctional Protestant family in 1951 in Bangor, Northern Ireland. At the height of the 'Troubles' in 1969, after completing her basic education, she worked for a year in bomb-riddled Belfast before deciding to emigrate to South Africa, a country tyrannised by the Apartheid government and simmering with racial tension. Christine arrived in South Africa as a naive nineteen-year-old, saddened by having to leave Ireland and blissfully unaware that she was entering a country not without its own 'Troubles'. This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary person who lived...

What happens when a mother does not or cannot love her daughter? My Broken Mug: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter focuses on explaining what it feels like to be rejected by your own mother. An eye-opening journey in the life of Beatrice, the unappreciated daughter: she examines her mother's toxic behavior by pointing out the emotional trauma she had endured during the first two decades of her life. The impact this had on her life shaped the blueprint for most of her relationships during adulthood, where she experienced rejection once again: she went through two divorces and faced physical...