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Cary J. Hansson

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I'm a fifty something mum of three, an ex-dancer, actress, waitress, cleaner, TV presenter, double-glazing sales rep, fax machine operator. You name it and I’ve cleaned it, served it, sent it or sold it.

I write stories about ordinary people, living lives of extraordinary courage and I can promise only two things: no knights in shining armour and no flying cars. My fictional characters save themselves, as in the end we all must do.

A Midlife Holiday is my debut. Here's what people are saying:

“I haven’t devoured a book in one sitting for a long time but I literally could not put this down. It shouldn’t be so rare (or refreshing) to read about the lives of middle-aged women, but it is. Cary J Hansson handles her subject matter with authenti
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Fences and firearms

I am trying to find myself.

Such a cliché and I wouldn’t blame you if, after reading that, you closed this letter right here.

But I am, and at fifty-eight it may be a little late in the day but until now I hadn’t realised I was lost … lost to myself that is.

My kids know who I am and where I am, and as far as my role as a mother goes, I know how to locate and assume that.

I’m very sure of my ident

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“Here lies the body of a woman who missed the single greatest moment of her husband’s life, because she was in Asda, buying milk.”
Cary J. Hansson, A Midlife Holiday

“And a snake cannot slip back into its discarded skin. A sheep cannot re-fleece itself. She had changed and she liked it”
Cary J. Hansson, A Midlife Baby

“Love, and only love, continues, handed down, generation after generation. How else to explain the fact that although her mother’s presence on this earth was more fragile by the day, the love Kay had for her was as vibrantly alive as that golden-winged butterfly. It informed the way she lived her own life, showing itself in inherited mannerisms and nuances of voice. For as long as she lived, her mother would.”
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