Is It Her?

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A bereaved man in his sixties faces up to life alone, after losing his beloved wife via assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. Navigating through life in a fog, he experiences a delightful collision. Does life offer second chances?

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Adrian, a recently retired designer is alone in the world. His loving wife Alice fell terminally ill, and rather than prolong her agony they chose to end it by assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. On his own for the first time in forty years, his only company is Mack, an ageing Jack Russell terrier. True to his departed wife's wishes, he seeks counselling to discuss his feelings, something he's not comfortable with, though this leads him onto seeking massage therapy. Fate takes a hand as an old love reappears. Could there be a new beginning after such a sad ending?

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About the author

Paul Whybrow

Ex many occupations, from the respectable career ladder to disreputable "somebody's-got-to- do-it". All a good way of seeing someone else's point of view. Best job, apart from writing, was dispatch riding on a motorcycle in the 1970s, though I've also enjoyed teaching, librarianship, counselling and helping to run a community centre. Worst job—you really don't want to know, but it was in a processed food manufacturer's factory—put me off bacon, sausages and quiches for a long time, and made me look at pet food in a new way.
I've been writing since I was eight, when I penned a story about a desert island and attempted to compile a dictionary—as Clarissa does in 'The Moon Is Out Tonight'. I've written for magazines under a variety of pen names, ghostwritten a couple of biographies and had a column in a local newspaper. I used to concentrate on non-fiction of an informative, how-to-do-it, instructional nature, as I'm a firm believer in the dissemination of knowledge to enable people to do things for themselves. Knowledge is power, and in these troubled times of economic recession and increased intrusion into our lives by government agencies it's vital to know how to get through. My fictional stories also show people coping and finding ways to survive.
I'm based in a Celtic nation, the county of Cornwall or Kernow. I've been here for thirty years, and have lived all over the country, as well as abroad—in France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and the USA.