"A touching and beautiful novel that doesn’t shy from exploring the feelings that surround and are a part of grief."
Fresh and different, yet age-old and wise, this searing novel explores all the emotions summed up by the term grief. Rose Gregory has been prescribed rest after a double bereavement, the retreat she attends at a Monastery is not the peaceful embrace she was hoping for. Grief is a highly personal reaction to loss, yet the writing opened up and allowed me entry.
Sylvia Colley notes the small details that matter, that enabled me to see, to feel, to almost touch her descriptions. It feels as though the author has an inner connection to, and full awareness of what it is to feel grief. As Rose looks backwards, and surfs memories from her childhood on, she actually travels forward, and I was with her every step of the way.
Ask Me to Dance is a touching, beautiful novel that wrapped itself into and around my thoughts.
Sylvia Colley's extraordinary understanding of a woman's struggle to deal with grief, the denial, the anger, the loneliness, is described without sentimentality. A beautifully written and moving story
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Sylvia Colley's extraordinary understanding of a woman's struggle to deal with grief, the denial, the anger, the loneliness, is described without sentimentality. A beautifully written and moving story
Ask Me to Dance features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
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Ask Me to Dance was written by Sylvia Colley and published by Muswell Press
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