I would like to welcome Charlotte Castle to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Charlotte. Please be sure and check out Charlotte's novel Simon's Choice. Check out my guest blog with Charlotte. Don't forget to enter the giveaway before you leave.
Book Title: Simon's Choice
Author: Charlotte Castle
PURCHASE
Simon's Choice
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Simon's Choice
"But Daddy, who will live with me in heaven?"
Doctor Simon Bailey has everything a man could ever want.
Then his beautiful daughter is diagnosed with Leukemia.
He can almost accept her impending death.
He can almost accept the fact that he will have to live without her.
But he cannot stand the thought of his little girl having to face death alone.
He answers her innocent question in a moment of desperation, testing his marriage, his professional judgment and his sanity to the limit.
As cracks form in Simon's previously perfect family, we wonder, as do his loved ones ... will he really make the ultimate sacrifice?
Combining poignant moments of both humour and pain, 'Simon's Choice' is a penetrating account of parenthood at the sharp-end.
GUEST BLOG
with Charlotte Castle
When I wrote Simon's Choice, I was pregnant.
It seems an odd choice now, to write about a dying child when I had one on the way, and there were quite a few moments when I thought I can't write this, I'm jinxing the life of my own children.
As I write this particular blog-post however, my son is thriving, yet sadly my marriage is not. I'm in the middle of a particularly acrimonious divorce.
I realize now, that Simon's Choice was never about little Sarah's struggle with leukemia, rather Simon and his wife Melissa's struggle with marriage - and how a an almost pitch-perfect relationship can suddenly fracture under the strains of the illness of a child.
Perhaps this is why those who have read the book very kindly insist that it isn't maudlin. I was writing about the anger that the parents feel, rather than the pain. I'm beginning to suspect that I was writing about my own anger, but veiled within a plotline that I can only hope will never happen to me.
As I spend most of my time arsing around on Facebook and writing what I hope are quite funny blog posts, it took me by surprise that I chose such a serious subject, but the book is full of dark humour and if it is possible to laugh in such a book, I'm told you will.
- About the Author
The daughter of a successful novelist, Charlotte Castle considers herself 'chronically unemployable' and admits to being astounded that her book has had such a positive reception.
"To be honest, I started writing 'Simon's Choice' out of a mixture of genuine desire to explore the horror of losing a child and a fair amount of desire to get out of mopping the kitchen floor. That people want to read it is wonderful."
A school governor for her daughter's primary school and actively involved in her local 'Community Action Group', Charlotte juggles writing with cleaning up after a man whom she says is "completely unfamiliar with the term 'washing basket'", her cat and her two children.
- GIVEAWAY
The giveaway is tour wide for:
5 ebook copies of Simon's Choice
5 print copies of Simon's Choice
Be sure and check out all the other stops on the tour.
TOUR SCHEDULE
December 7 Promo/Excerpt Guiltless Reading
December 8 Interview The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom
December 9 Interview Roxanne’s Realm
December 10 Promo Fang-tastic Books
December 12 Guest blog Guiltless Reading
December 13 Interview Books for Parents & Teachers
December 14 Promo DEB SANDERS
December 15 Interview Bewitching Book Tours Magazine
December 16 Guest blog Lisa’s World of Books
December 18 review Uplifting Reads
December 19 Promo Sapphyria's Book Reviews
December 19 Guest blog The Avid Reader
December 20 Guest blog Paranormal Book Club
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