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Wendy Lawless

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Wendy Lawless Being able to do it anywhere. At the stop sign, the library, the coffee shop. And of course the best thing is having a new career as a writer at the a…moreBeing able to do it anywhere. At the stop sign, the library, the coffee shop. And of course the best thing is having a new career as a writer at the age of fifty-four.(less)
Wendy Lawless Heart of Glass - the sequel to Chanel Bonfire. The story picks up after I've escaped my crazy train mom, and move to NYC with aspirations to be an act…moreHeart of Glass - the sequel to Chanel Bonfire. The story picks up after I've escaped my crazy train mom, and move to NYC with aspirations to be an actress in 1980's downtown gritty Manhattan. (less)
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Everyone has a story to tell and I can help you learn to tell yours! Who knows, maybe some some summer soon someone will be reading it at the beach! Although not my mother above as she was more likely to be “reading” eligible men in their bathing suits. Join me via Zoom at WritingPadUs … Continue reading Memoir Workshop!!! → Read more of this blog post »
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Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless
"The most fascinating aspect of this memoir is not Lawless, but her mother. Laweless’ mother, Georgeann, was the adopted daughter of a solid but aloof man and his manipulative, abusive wife. Georgeann was finally free of her adoptive mother when she d" Read more of this review »
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"Another memoir about children “raised” by a self absorbed addicted abusive mother. The ones I have read are well written. I’m sorry so many people endure childhoods with such awful parents. "
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"This was really well-written and hard to put down. What the author and her sister were subjected to at the hands of their violent, abusive mother was shocking and harrowing, but the way she wrote it, with humor added in at times, made it very digesti" Read more of this review »
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“the future wasn’t something you planned for; it was something that just happened, like your car spinning out on some black ice and hitting a snowbank, or the telephone ringing with bad news in the middle of the night.”
Wendy Lawless, Chanel Bonfire

“was like a monk whose religion was smoking cigarettes.”
Wendy Lawless, Heart of Glass: A Memoir

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