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Breathing Space
Sometimes walking away from your life is the only way to find yourself.
Lydia’s vacation on Hyde Island turns into a journey of self-discovery. The island so entices her that she decides to stay, forsaking her family and obligations in Toronto. Her new life on the lush green island is peopled with a hippy scientist, a dashing southern gentleman, a slimy boss, and an undocumented Mexican hotel maid with a sad history. As Lydia makes one questionable choice after another, she soon begins to understand why she so easily succumbed to Hyde Island’s lure.
Lydia’s vacation on Hyde Island turns into a journey of self-discovery. The island so entices her that she decides to stay, forsaking her family and obligations in Toronto. Her new life on the lush green island is peopled with a hippy scientist, a dashing southern gentleman, a slimy boss, and an undocumented Mexican hotel maid with a sad history. As Lydia makes one questionable choice after another, she soon begins to understand why she so easily succumbed to Hyde Island’s lure.
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2014
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About the author
Sylvia May
5 books17 followersSylvia May writes women’s fiction with characters who approach life with pluck, determination, and sometimes foolhardiness.
Sylvia is also a musician and artist, and believes that tapping into our creativity fulfills us in a way that nothing else can. Dutch by birth, she is Canadian who has lived in both the U.S. and Bermuda, and currently lives in the charming village of St. Jacobs in Ontario, Canada. Some of her favourite activities include scuba diving, painting in watercolour and acrylic, playing the piano, and of course, reading. She lives with her most staunch supporter, her husband, and has three grown children and three granddaughters.
As New York Times bestselling author Lucy Arlington, Sylvia co-authored with Ellery Adams the first three volumes in the mystery series A Novel Idea.
Sylvia is also a musician and artist, and believes that tapping into our creativity fulfills us in a way that nothing else can. Dutch by birth, she is Canadian who has lived in both the U.S. and Bermuda, and currently lives in the charming village of St. Jacobs in Ontario, Canada. Some of her favourite activities include scuba diving, painting in watercolour and acrylic, playing the piano, and of course, reading. She lives with her most staunch supporter, her husband, and has three grown children and three granddaughters.
As New York Times bestselling author Lucy Arlington, Sylvia co-authored with Ellery Adams the first three volumes in the mystery series A Novel Idea.
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March 1, 2015
It's hard not to envy Lydia's sudden decision to escape to a quiet island. What's not to envy? Yet author Sylvia May is an expert in throwing all those practical concerns like food, lodging, and income in Lydia's path and creating a novel that is both adventurous and grounded in reality. If faced with the choice of a new life on a South Georgia island or returning to a familiar life in Canada, what might you choose?
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