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Bleeds When Broken

by Joy M. LilleyPublish: Aug 08, 2024Action & Adventure

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Our protagonist, Fiona talks early on about her troubled childhood, revealing why she is now plagued by the dangerous habit of self-harming in which she indulges.
She is an intelligent, good looking girl, in her early twenties, with a career in the nursing profession.
Fiona lives with her mother and sister in England. ... Her father died a few years back.

The habit was difficult to hide and known about by her family. Her mother being so concerned felt that a trip on a cruise maybe what the girl needed to help improve her health issues.
It was on this trip that she meets Charles, a young man looking for love. He makes it a daily quest to begin a courtship with Fiona, who really wants nothing serious in her life at the time.
On this trip Fiona manages to avoid hurting herself and mother is hopeful that her daughters habit may become a thing of the past.

After arriving back home several attempts to self harm are made over the months that follow and she ends up in hospital. She starts to dislike her family and Charles, refuses to return home where the reception will be hostile, when not granted she decides to discharge herself in the middle of the night and flees to the South of France. Her family fail to know her where about’s for some long time and involve an investigator to find her.
She took her self harm kit and medications with her to France and during her time there she was happy and experienced a number of varying encounters. She also did not harm herself. She finds work and accommodation along with kindness. The investigator finds her and relays how concerned her family are to know that she is safe and well. He implores her to at least make contact and advise of her well-being.

Guilt brings Fiona home, and this is where troubles and near death experiences occur. read more

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Joy M. Lilley
United Kingdom9 Books
Women's Fiction Literary Fiction

BIOGRAPHY
Hello, My name is Joy Gerken,pen name Joy M. Lilley I write/blog[joymlilleyauthor.wordpress.com] and was a trained nurse, most my working life, until I retired in 2015.I am a Grandmother and enjoy spending quality time with my large family.
My first novel is 'Figs, Vines and Roses' a tale of love and loss at the ... turn of the nineteenth century.

My second novel is called 'The Liberty Bodice'.This is a completely different genre to the first novel and follows the trials and tribulations of a young girl working for the Special Operations Executive[S.O.E.]in W.W.2.

You can also find my short story 'Lost and Found' published in Liphar short stories Vol 1.[Liphar short stories}by Liphar magazine.

In 2016 my novella 'Times pendulum swings again' was published. This tells of a hospital romance that starts well, until the truth about the surgical registrar admitting to his nurse girlfriend that he is married with two sons back home in Nepal.This book has just won a FIREBIRD award.

My forth publication 'Strawberry moon' a crime, mystery set in the Dordogne, France,was released in 2019 and has been well received.
I now have two novellas published. The first 'One Chance Encounter' tells of a mature woman looking for love in the wrong direction. And becomes embroiled in the nefarious side of the internet. The sequel is 'With Tears in her Eyes'has many twists and turns leading somewhere towards an unusual ending.

Joy Is a voice actress and mainly works in the FIVERR field. Find her if you require audio work at reasonable prices at www.fiverr.com/lilleypond3
She specializes in voicing short audio books. read more

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Book Detail
Title Bleeds When Broken
Author Joy M. Lilley
ASIN B0DCPCSMNH
Publish Date 08, Aug 2024
Language English
Page Count 165
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