Country Published: Great Britain
Copyright: 2019
Date Published: October 24, 2019
Language: English
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC.
Publisher: Mirador
Publishing, UK
ISBN 13: 978-1-913264-23-9
ISBN 10: 1913264238
Pages: 250
Paper Back: $18.94
Kindle Version: $4.95
Introduction: The Beginning!
This book starts out
hitting the ground running. Richard, the antagonist, is certainly a wife beater,
abuser, devious jerk, egotistical maniac, and a shrewd character to humanity.
His subjugated wife, Diane, is like a puppet on a string. When he pulls, she
jumps as high as he wants. He has her well trained. He only cares about his
financial portfolio, Wall Street Journal, Italian gold wristwatch, fancy house
with multiple garage, luxury cars, blowing his cigarette smoke in other’s
faces, and temporal material things— “Nothing spiritual in God’s sight!”
He wife Diane is a
nervous wreck based on his abuse. He speaks to as he likes, calls her bad names
like a street thug, classifies her as a dumb blonde, and rapes her whenever he
wants. Their lives are miles apart, without any love or affection. His actions have
her living in a whiskey bottle, sometimes mixed with tonic, and a variety of
pills. His allowance pays her doctor bills. Dr. Samantha Rose, supplies her
with pills to alleviate her pain, while she outlines Richard’s demeaning and
brutal actions.
The interesting
aspects of this family—they are all dysfunctional and emotional alcoholics.
Their self-esteem crawls in the dirt like a snake. Paranoia is rampant and
there is no display of humility. The belief of being a cut-throat lawyer
[Liars] elevates their simple-mindedness to be giants over others classified as
midgets. Diane is in a catch-22 position between her husband, and her attorney
daughter, Leah, who is tightly wrapped with her lawyer dad. She is also a liar
as her profession requires. Brutality and ignorance reign throughout the
family.
Diane, was sincerely
beaten with kicks and slaps one day, after she calls Leah to spend some time
with her. Leah, calls her dad and told him. He came home and almost killed her
by thinking she went behind his back without permission. He calls her bitchy names, heated words
escalated to almost killing her, he sodomized her, and left a note the next
morning, stating he in on a business trip to Texas, and how much he loves and
forgives her. Such a brutal sadist!
Secrets are revealed
when her mother found her, with blood and bruises. She cleans her up with a
bath. They began having stiff alcoholic
drinks to erase the pain from their minds. They discussed family history, interconnections,
and how she encouraged Richard to fall in love with her. Interestingly, she
discussed how she made a pot of boiling water one day, after her husband hits
her once. She woke him up, and was ready to burn his balls off with the pot of
hot water if he ever hits her again. Such a fascinating beginning in this book.
The narrated story moves uphill with conflicts as it’s supposed to, and reveals
a variety of secrets along the way.
Plans were offered
by Dr. Rose, Diane’s doctor, regarding getting her getting away from her
antagonist husband Richard. She also received inspiration from Richard’s
mother, Helen, who endured spousal abuse in the past from her husband. They
expressed the desire, to financially and psychosocially rescue Diane, from
Richard the antagonistical sadist. The story appears to reach the top of the
hill, where Diane seems to be strengthened based on the facts she has gathered
about Richard’s life. Her weakness is diminishing, and she is facing the
antagonist with defiance, and not being a coward, since support for victory is
turning in her favor. Will this stage of her life become the plateau turning
the process of conflict to resolution? Let’s find out!
The Middle: Absolute Gravity!
Confrontations in
this section lead in varied directions. Confessions occur between Diane and
Richard. His pregnant Swedish lover, Julie, hits center stage. His infidelity
and cunningness are disclosed of him manipulating the detective hired by Diane,
to uncover his infidelity. He bribes the detective not to provide all the facts
of investigation to Diane. More secrets are disclosed, and skeletons jumped out
the closets. Diane’s mother, is dying from cancer once in remission. She
refuses treatment, and is disgusted with the brutal treatment by Richard of her
daughter.
Things are on the
downward resolution slope in this section, since Diane’s first mentioning of
God. More skeletons are coming out the closets, regarding Richard and his
Swedish lover, Julie. She is current pregnancy, and had a prior miscarriage of
their child. Richard’s mother, Helen, has knowledge of the facts. She also
talked about her own husband’s having a child from his infidelity. Things hit
the fan when all three of Richard and Diane’s daughters: Sarah, Nina, and Leah
the attorney, came home to see their grandmother, who is suffering from cancer
before she dies. He sodomized Diane one night and, Sarah, one of the daughters
heard the whole event. They turned against Richard and Leah, the hot shot
flashy dressing lawyer, with her head in the cloud nine, the following morning.
The plot thickens, when Sarah confesses about an incident she saw between her
dad, and Leah romancing, when they came to England to twist her arm in trying
to get her to change her studies to the field of law, and become a solicitor.
The slippery slope
slides faster downhill, when Diane calls Richard’s mother, to accept the offer
she made for her to leave Richard. More skeletons came out of the closet, which
strengthen Diana, including the disinheritance of Richard because of his
scandals to the family’s name. Diane, with raw emotion is now standing on her
own two feet and taking things into her own hands. She calls Dr. Rose, seeking
her help regarding an offer made to relocate her to New York through a
confidant, named Cleo Miller. Unable to follow this lead, she calls a female,
named Ruby, she met during a doctor’s appointment and consulted with her
regarding a contact she has in New York, who could help her get away from
Richard.
The End: Calculated Risks
She eventually met
with Robert’s real estate agent, David Wilson, who is handling the sale of their
house resulting from the pending divorce. She will receive none of the
proceeds. Wilson stated to her, “Not many women would walk away from this. Take
care of yourself.” She also met with
Richard’s lawyer regarding the divorce, Mr. Colfax from London. Richard claimed
the following grounds for divorce: alienation of affection, none-resolvability,
unrecoverable differences, and mental cruelty. She also relinquishes all claims
to Richards’ inheritance, money, and assets. She also completed the documents
from Richard’s mother allocating to her $1 million each year for the 28-years
they were married. The attorney told her, “Live your life all of this will
pass.” He then catches a cab heading for his flight to get back to his office
in London. In actuality, she should be the one bringing such claims for a
divorce against Richard. Such a devious rascal he is!
Diane finally made
it to New York, and stayed with her daughter, Nina. She eventually met Cleo,
Dr. Rose’s contact. They greeted, Cleo likes her, and arranged a place for her
to rent. They are both happy. She noticed a fellow with a pony tail looking at
her one day while walking with Cleo to an appointment. He stopped in a tea
shop, she watched him, waved, and walked on with Cleo. She and the ponytailed
fellow came acrossed each other another day. He invited her to have a cup of
tea. Turns out he is an attorney who is separated from his wife. They shared
stories, he asked her out to dinner, to a place he owns named “A Piece of
Heaven.” She has always wanted a “Piece of Heaven” since meeting Richard, which
she never had. I developed an instinct it would take place, and I was right.
They are now— “Lovie Dovie!”
Things were going
well for Diane, until her daughter, Leah the attorney, visited her in New York.
Sparks started flaring between Leah and her sister, Nina, who became upset and
left the apartment. The sparks continue flying between Leah and her mother.
Then the bomb shell fell. She stated she was pregnant once by her father,
Richard the scoundrel, and had an abortion. She had a fight with her mother and
disappeared thereafter.
The police came
looking for Diane one day. Everyone was concerned. No one knew why they were
there looking for her. The police eventually entered her apartment. Based on
the news given to her by the police she fainted. Just image the ensuing and
intriguing drama from this point to the end. Please, get the book and read all
about it!
Conclusion
This book is
excellently narrated. Plot is great. Themes various and continuous. Conflicts
and trajectory awe-inspiring. Emphasis
superb and intimidating. Imagery thought provoking. Metaphor and simile are eye
opening with comparison. Symbolisms are striking. The primary protagonist,
Diane, and devilish antagonist Richard, superbly played their parts with unique
drama and emphasis. The descriptive excellence invokes a variety of vivid
images, reinforced by repetitions. There are other English conventions of
literature displayed in the narrative. This is a very chilling, intriguing,
dramatic and soul recovery story. It could truly have been non-fictional
depending of the jurisdiction and/or setting. Drama takes place in society with
worldwide humanity every day at different times and places. Some will explain
it this way, “I can’t really believe it.” However, the fact of the matter is,
believe or not, Stuff happens daily!”
About The Author
C. L. Charlesworth is truly an amazing author. She has the gift of imagination which
is a bright beacon to her writing career. She has the vision of writing, and is
very fortunate in taking blank sheets of paper and creating pages of a story evoking
a wide array of intriguing human drama. I'm very inspired by her uplifting
creative power in the simplest of things, forms, and aspects of life, to the
most inventive of complex challenges a person may face. Along those line, she derives
empathy for the character’s personality, she displays with immense dialogue.
She is portrayed as a "back porch story teller,” proliferating imaginations
with intriguing writing, which grabs the readers from the first sentence,
onward with eloquence of thoughts and creativity.”
She also authored, “The
Ears That Have Eyes." This book takes the reader on an emotional journey
of faith, hope, love, and life. The novel is released by Publishing Inc (April 30, 2015).
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