An Ordinary Life

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The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. He said: “David came to me with the brief of placing Steven and Sara in 1950s London, stranding them in a completely alien environment with the very real possibility that they might just have to get used to living there – an ‘ordinary life’. For her, the family she holds near and dear doesn't in fact know the real Molly or her many secrets. It was such a beautiful and heartfelt story; I was so lost in Molly’s story that I did not even realize how the time flew and within a few hours I had finished reading it. I also found myself wishing that the mental health treatment discussed in one part of the book had been explored in rather more depth.

In short, the story of a life that was far from ordinary, and yet one that is all the more powerful because Molly never thought of herself as heroic. We pursue stuff in life only to find out sooner or later that it won’t bring any happiness or lasting fulfillment. Amanda Prowse portrays how the war had changed the trajectory of many lives and how women slotted into jobs usually allocated to men. My thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation to take part in the tour and to publishers Lake Union for my review copy of the book from Netgalley. A popular TV and radio personality, Amanda is a regular panellist on Channel 5’s ‘The Jeremy Vine Show’ and numerous daytime ITV programmes.MY THOUGHTS: This is a steady-paced but extremely emotional family drama that had me in tears several times during the read. Fadhumo and Helen are two refugees seeking sanctuary, one in Tel Aviv and one in Berlin, each coping with discrimination, otherness and a life away from home. I've now read around a dozen of her books and will keep reading the rest until I catch up to her current total of ~25. It flowed really nicely and the timeline was not complex or confusing due to the dates written at the beginning of the chapter.

It brings an awareness that we might all be living simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary lives, if you only change your angle of perspective. From there, time jumps every decade to let us know what's happened to Molly, and then finally, we're back at the moment when she's writing the letter and encounters yet another tragedy.Amanda Prowse is an International Bestselling author whose twenty six novels and seven novellas have been published in dozens of languages around the world. We as a society have developed such a strong desire to be more accomplished and successful in comparison to our peers.