Blurb:
A love lost and a love
found...
A
knock at the door shatters Kate Hemingway’s life when she’s told of her husband
Stuart’s death in Afghanistan.
She
struggles to care for their young son George with only Stuart’s aloof best
friend Paul as emotional support. Piece by fragile piece, she tries to rebuild
her life, realising Paul and her son have formed an unlikely bond. When Paul
agrees to accompany Kate and a group of disadvantaged teenagers on a trip to
the Yorkshire moors, he finally reveals something he’s kept secret for years.
Kate’s own scarred heart begins to open up—but can she risk her son’s happiness
as well as her own?
A
novel about friendship, loss, and the human heart’s enduring capacity for love,
this stunning debut explores one woman’s attempt at survival when her world
comes crashing down around her.
Review by Rochelle:
A Way from Heart to Heart was a moving novel
about a scarred woman who came from nothing, having escaped a sexually abusive
father and an emotionally abusive mother. Kate ran away from home and lived on
the streets as a teenager, surviving with the help of her best friend, Orla,
until photographer Stuart Hemingway’s photographs of her propelled her into a
world she never imagined existed. Not only did she become a professional model,
she also became his wife. Kate’s confidence was fragile, however, propped up by
Stuart’s love. Now, however, she’s become his widow, and her world has crashed
around her. She still has their son, George, Orla, and her work. And Stuart’s
best friend, Paul shows up regularly to take George out, but he’s always been
aloof. Kate’s sure he’s looked down on her as a gold-digger like the rest of
Stuart’s friends and family. Until he decides to do a story on Kate’s favorite
charity for at-risk, underprivileged girls, and he reveals the real reason he’s
been so aloof through the years.
As
I read A Way from Heart to Heart, I thought it
was self-published and not edited. It was full of dizzying head-hops. I’m
afraid the editor did not do her job here, and it’s a shame that such a good
book had to suffer in that way. Otherwise, I’d have given it five roses. Still,
keep the tissues handy when you read this book.
Length:
284 Pages
Prices:
Print:
$14.95
Digital:
$2.99
Buy Links:
You’ll
notice we always include the publisher’s buy link. That’s because authors
usually receive 40% of the book price from the publisher. Editors and cover
artists usually receive about 5%. When you buy a book from Amazon, Barnes &
Noble or another third-party vendor, they take a hefty cut and the author,
editors and cover artists receive their royalties from what is left. So, if a
book costs $5.99 at E-BookPublisher.com and you buy from there, the author will
receive about $2.40. If you buy the book at Amazon, the author will receive
about $0.83.
Downloading
the file from your computer to your e-reader is as easy as transferring any
file from your computer to a USB flash drive. You can download your books onto
your computer using “Save As” to a “Books” folder you create and sort them into
sub-folders by genre, author, or however you wish before transferring them to
your e-reader. That way, if there’s a glitch with your e-reader, the books are
on your computer. Once you’ve saved the book to your computer plug the larger
USB end of your chord into a USB port on your computer and simply move the file
from the folder you created to your E-Reader/Documents/Books directory. Your
author will be happy you did when he/she sees his/her royalty statement.
Thanks
for visiting. Julie, Donna, & Rochelle
After corresponding with the author, I realized changes of point of view were indicated by double-spaces, but I missed them much of the time. I apologize to the author. Apparently, her publisher does not use the kind of section-break markers I've come to expect from other publishers. This book is not full of head-hops; I simply missed the section breaks when I was reading it.
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