In this gritty and honest memoir, Manterfield traces her spiraling route from rational 21st-century woman to desperate mama-wannabe and back. Hers is the story of a woman who escapes her addiction, not with a baby, but with her sanity, her marriage, and her sense-of-self intact. 226 pp.
In this gritty and honest memoir, Manterfield traces her spiraling route from rational 21st-century woman to desperate mama-wannabe and back. Hers is ...
The very last thing 17-year-old Emmott Syddall wants is to turn out like her dad. She's descended from ten generations who never left their dull English village, and there's no way she's going to waste a perfectly good life that way. She's moving to London and she swears she is never coming back.
But when the unexplained deaths of her neighbors force the government to quarantine the village, Em learns what it truly means to be trapped. Now, she must choose. Will she pursue her desire for freedom, at all costs, or do what's best for the people she loves: her dad, her best friend Deb,...
The very last thing 17-year-old Emmott Syddall wants is to turn out like her dad. She's descended from ten generations who never left their dull En...