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One day I'll fly away
Steady, reliable husband and father of two small children Dave Mason, does not drive to work as usual one morning but turns the car around and drives to the coast of south west England, where by chance he begins a new life, the life he has always craved, with a new love, A new romance. Pamela his wife of fifteen years, left alone with the children tries to make sense of what has happened and helped by her lifelong friend Maggie attempts to find her errant husband. What will she do or say if she finds him ? What will he do? We have all at some time in our lives felt like just running away. This is the tale of someone who did.
278 pages, Paperback
Published November 20, 2023
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December 27, 2023
One Day I’ll Fly Away by Nick Evetts is a poignant bittersweet contemporary novel that I enjoyed.
We follow a middle-aged man who is having a crisis of identity. He leaves his home and travels to the south west of England. We see a broken man who is transformed by kindness and compassion as a community figuratively nurses him back to health.
The fresh air of the Cornish landscape contrasts with the stifling urban landscape.
We are also privy to the life he left behind. We see a wife and two young children, struggling to cope without a husband and father.
There is a tension between the old and the new. We see that he is not a ‘bad’ man, just a broken and confused one. Neither is the wife ‘bad’. She is just a wife and mother existing from day to day.
What will happen in the end? Which life will the husband and father choose? You will have to read the book to find out!
We follow a middle-aged man who is having a crisis of identity. He leaves his home and travels to the south west of England. We see a broken man who is transformed by kindness and compassion as a community figuratively nurses him back to health.
The fresh air of the Cornish landscape contrasts with the stifling urban landscape.
We are also privy to the life he left behind. We see a wife and two young children, struggling to cope without a husband and father.
There is a tension between the old and the new. We see that he is not a ‘bad’ man, just a broken and confused one. Neither is the wife ‘bad’. She is just a wife and mother existing from day to day.
What will happen in the end? Which life will the husband and father choose? You will have to read the book to find out!
January 8, 2024
I absolutely loved this book. It made me laugh and cry and kept me glued to reading it until I had finished it. It is descriptive and informative without being over the top. It could have several endings so keeps you in suspense. It is a book of our time .
January 9, 2024
Really enjoyed this book, couldn’t put it down! Very well written, interesting story line that kept me wanting to find out more, lots of quirky characters and a second part to this story would be fantastic!
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