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Beth Jenkins is a young locum doctor and prides herself on helping her patients reframe the story of their lives - nudging them towards more optimistic narratives - but her own story is stuck. Her husband has had a stroke, disastrously altering his personality, and she's trapped in a life of duty and loneliness. Beth is semi-bereaved and will be for decades. On the other hand she knows, in theory, that there are millions of lives possible to live. Could it be that, by a quirk of fate, she's in the wrong life? Should she flee, make a new start? It would have to be somewhere far away, somewhere so out of the way and hazardous that no one would risk looking for her - somewhere like Zimbabwe, where she might find the person (part real, part fantasy) she's named Safari Man. But she has a career, of sorts, has responsibilities and she's twenty-eight-and-a-half - far too old to run away from home. Then she comes across a poem: 'The day comes when they have to declare the great Yes.' She makes her choice...

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Fortunate
• Author: Andrew Jh Sharp
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9781783060016
• ISBN: 1783060018
• ID: 01354559
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing
• Weight: 398 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 129 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2013

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