Release date - 1st March 2018
Book length - 292 pages Publisher - Sapere Books Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Caoimhe from saperebooks.com for the opportunity to take part in this blog tour and for providing me with an e-copy for review. ABOUT THE BOOK No one had expected Ernest to die, least of all Ernest… Ernest Bentley was a pillar of the community. But when he suddenly dies of a heart attack his wife Annie refuses to have the words ‘beloved husband’ added to his gravestone. Their son, Billy, is exasperated with his mother and worries about how she will cope on her own. Unwilling to take time out of his own busy schedule to take care of her, he enlists the services of the local vicar, Andrew, to keep an eye on her. Before she knows what is happening, Annie finds herself telling the vicar things she has kept hidden for years. Dark secrets that had plagued her sixty-year marriage to Ernest. When Annie’s estranged granddaughter, Ophelia, turns up for a visit, the two bond over their mutual contempt for Billy and his controlling behaviour. But when Ophelia meets Andrew, the unhappily married vicar, things start to get very complicated… What is the truth about Ernest? Why is Annie behaving so strangely now that he is dead? And how can Andrew reconcile his growing feelings for Ophelia with his respect for his marriage and his religion? Spanning from the Second World War to the present day, Dead Ernest is a poignant, moving and, at times, very funny look at what really goes on behind closed doors in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. MY REVIEW In a picture-perfect English village, Annie suddenly finds herself a widow when her husband of sixty years, Ernest, drops dead outside the local fish and chip shop. But Annie takes it all in her stride. Actually, she seems to be coping just fine, a fact which is irritating her overbearing son Billy no end. Shouldn't she be grief-stricken, lost, heartbroken? So when he mentions this to the local vicar, Andrew, who has his own marital problems, Andrew decides to look in on Annie and see if she needs to talk. As Annie begins to confide the truth about Ernest and their marriage, long-buried secrets will come to the surface, and when Ophelia arrives to spend time with her grandmother, this will set off an altogether different chain reaction ... DEAD ERNEST by Frances Garrood is a well-developed, thought-provoking story with characters that will worm their way under your skin and make you feel connected to their lives. Even though we all know the saying that 'Looks can be deceiving', this story will really make you stop and think about it. Ernest was a pillar of the community, a well-respected man who lived a quiet life with his gentle wife, but as Annie peels away the layers of her life, we get to see the truth. DEAD ERNEST by Frances Garrood is a story of family, secrets, and what truly happens behind closed doors and I thoroughly enjoyed this rich drama. I look forward to more from this author. AUTHOR BIO: My main career was nursing, but I also trained and worked for many years as a relationship counsellor with Relate. Widowed in 1992, I re-married and now live with my husband in Wiltshire, where I enjoy riding my horse in the beautiful Pewsey Vale, reading, writing, and keeping up with my grandchildren. I also write regularly to a prisoner on Texas Death Row. I first started writing as a child; mainly poetry, but there was one horrific novel (mercifully, never finished) in which a woman gives birth to a hideously deformed child in a thunderstorm. While I was bringing up my four children, I began writing and selling short stories to magazines before the enforced immobility following a fractured spine gave me the time to tackle my first novel. All my books are very strongly relationship-based. My writing has also been affected by my widowhood, and my books sometimes include issues of death and bereavement. Strangely (and not by design) they all seem to include pet animal funerals (not a subject which normally occupies my mind!). For more information: Website - www.francesgarrood.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/FrancesGarroodAuthor/ DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE OTHER STOPS ALONG THE WAY!!!
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