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Roses
Roses is the story of a 53 year old woman who is facing the end of her life after a battle with cancer. Witness memories of her life as a child, her struggles as she becomes a single mother in the 70's. Looking back at new events around the globe and memories of history as it unfolded in UK, music and her massive life events. Cancer is now diagnosed in UK to 1 in 3 people, this book tells the story of just one ordinary woman who has been struck down by this terrible illness.
54 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2013
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About the author
Ruth Watson-Morris
78 books38 followersAuthor of mixed genres.
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Dark fantasy novels
Fantasia, Orion, Sky, and soon to be published Kaos, book 4 of the Voxian series.
Thriller/romance/sci-fi book Empathica due for a re-write coming in 2024.
Brand new children's preschool, Special educational needs, and primary school series.
Rainbow for first word association.
The Baby Dragons series now on book 4 Summer Splash
Book 3 Fire Babies
Book 2 Water Babies
Book 1 The Baby Dragons
Beautiful illustrations and easy to read language to build a child's reading confidence.
A wonderful YA LGBTQ reading called Belief, The Reaper stories book 1
I've been away for a while, so bear with.
Thanks 💐
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May 18, 2024
The cover isn’t bad, just curious why they are different on Amazon and Goodreads.
Pros
I thought this was going to be a story focusing on a woman contacting colon cancer and how her family and friends would react. Well, it is and it isn’t.
The story centers around our character Rose Smith. She is an ordinary teenager growing up in England. Her parents have high hopes for her as do most parents of their children. Well, Rose gets pregnant at seventeen and sends her parents into a tizzy. Her mother has a stroke over the news. Her father insists he has not the time onr inclination to help her. She doesn’t want their help and moves out forging her own path.
Over time, her family winds up forgiving her transgression and life moves on.
Her daughter Kelly, like her mom excels in school making everyone proud.
Rose stays single until the day she meets Jim in 1992. Life is good even though she lost her father in 2000 and mom in 2002. Life goes on.
Rose will contract cancer in 2007 and spend the next five years fighting the disease until she succumbs to it. That’s it in a nutshell.
Seeing how I’ve lost my partner, father and fiancé to different forms of cancer, I can relate.
Cons
I truly don’t understand why it was necessary to clutter up what could have been a very touching and engrossing story with all the news clips. Since each chapter has a year, I found the material unwanted and did nothing to move the story forward, only bog it down.
Grammatical errors. Found over twenty. The lack of comas was the big one. There are also missing words. IE 1961 “What the Avengers?” Comma after what.
1971 Mrs. Black didn’t have chance to say anymore.” Need “a” after have. There are more, but I’m not being paid to edit.
Overall, it’s a quick read but in its current form, it is difficult to recommend it.
Three Stars.
Pros
I thought this was going to be a story focusing on a woman contacting colon cancer and how her family and friends would react. Well, it is and it isn’t.
The story centers around our character Rose Smith. She is an ordinary teenager growing up in England. Her parents have high hopes for her as do most parents of their children. Well, Rose gets pregnant at seventeen and sends her parents into a tizzy. Her mother has a stroke over the news. Her father insists he has not the time onr inclination to help her. She doesn’t want their help and moves out forging her own path.
Over time, her family winds up forgiving her transgression and life moves on.
Her daughter Kelly, like her mom excels in school making everyone proud.
Rose stays single until the day she meets Jim in 1992. Life is good even though she lost her father in 2000 and mom in 2002. Life goes on.
Rose will contract cancer in 2007 and spend the next five years fighting the disease until she succumbs to it. That’s it in a nutshell.
Seeing how I’ve lost my partner, father and fiancé to different forms of cancer, I can relate.
Cons
I truly don’t understand why it was necessary to clutter up what could have been a very touching and engrossing story with all the news clips. Since each chapter has a year, I found the material unwanted and did nothing to move the story forward, only bog it down.
Grammatical errors. Found over twenty. The lack of comas was the big one. There are also missing words. IE 1961 “What the Avengers?” Comma after what.
1971 Mrs. Black didn’t have chance to say anymore.” Need “a” after have. There are more, but I’m not being paid to edit.
Overall, it’s a quick read but in its current form, it is difficult to recommend it.
Three Stars.
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