Guest Post
Rising Above the Mistakes That Threaten to Define Us
I’m a novelist who’s best known for being crowned the world’s first Lit Idol at the London Book Fair in the UK. Although I got my big break in London, England, I live in London, Canada. That’s why I go by the moniker Not That London Writer.
Weekend Pass is my third novel. It’s about Tasha, a nurse trying to pick up the pieces of her life during her first weekend home from drug treatment after she accidentally poisons her eight-year-old son. More broadly, it’s about struggling to rise above the mistakes that threaten to define us.
Although Weekend Pass is very much Tasha’s story, I wanted to show how addiction impacts entire families, which is why it’s told from four different points of view. Jill Murphy from The Bookbag in the UK said something in her review of the novel that I thought was apt: “Nobody comes out of this book as any kind of shining light but its strength is that it shows us that nobody is really the villain either.”
Something else she said in her review that captured the spirit of the book was “Can we atone for the worst of our mistakes? Of course we can. Can we regain the trust others have lost in us? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. But there is always honour and humanity in the effort.”
Dysfunctional families are a favourite topic of mine. I’m not sure why exactly. I wouldn’t consider my family history particularly fraught. Maybe it comes from my background as an occupational therapist, seeing families under stress as they try to cope with health crises.
You can find more details about Weekend Pass and my other books on my website, notthatlondon.com. Often, you’ll see special deals there that may be difficult to find elsewhere. You’ll also get of glimpse of what I do to keep my readers entertained between my novels.
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Nice cover. The blurb sounds like a great read.
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