SAFE PLACE

<p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An intriguing family saga and love story spanning over forty years begins quite innocuously when a delivery driver (Rory) delivers a parcel to an elderly woman`s house (Rhona) and from there begins a voyage of self-discovery after an unlikely friendship is formed. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With Rhona`s help Rory comes to terms with his past but in doing so uncovers family secrets. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The reader is transported back through Rhona`s life and the hardship she endured living with an abusive husband (Harold) and her unexpected affair with a married man (Erick). After leaving Harold she flees to the West of Ireland where Erick owns a remote cottage. Here she gives birth and must deal with the trauma of having to put their illegitimate baby up for adoption. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unable to remain there she flees to Cornwall thinking she may never see her lover or her baby again.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Having settled there her life takes many twists and turns and she meets some interesting characters and one whom she falls in love with. But this relationship ends in a double tragedy. Her life spirals out of control and eventually taking the advice of a good friend she goes off to a Keralan Retreat. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile Erick is going through his own family traumas and his life begins to unravel. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But by a coincidental twist of fate something happens that changes the course of both their lives forever.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Eventually the truth is revealed by Rory.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He meanwhile has been gradually revealing more about his past to Rhona and what he tells her is quite shocking. But after discovering something unexpected and surprising about his parents love </span>wins through and later after<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a seemingly happy ending something happens that leaves the reader wondering.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Safe Place is an engaging thought-provoking harrowing yet uplifting tale of strength love and belonging.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p>