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Remembering Susan
Visit Paul Kilmartin on Amazon for other titles.***On Her Memories Bitter EdgePoignant Novella from Paul Kilmartin.Anna lays on her hospital bed, in a small town in Ireland, alone and confused and revisiting parts of her life. Along comes a patient, who behind tired eyes, still retains a fire inside of her, for a life gone by. She reminds Anna of a friend, long since gone, but the memories of a friendship like that are hard to extinguish.A hospital bed is a lonely place to be, but through a shared sense of loss, Anna and the mysterious Mary, look out for one another and in their own way, comfort each other.Paul Kilmartin's 3rd Amazon book.
77 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 25, 2018
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About the author
Paul Kilmartin
11 books2 followersBorn in the year of 1980, from Tullamore, County Offaly. Paul is a gifted writer, with a love of reading and writing page turning thrillers.
Writing is akin to breathing air or drinking water. Both are necessary for life, but writing gives you a little bit more. For Paul it gives him life itself, and sustains his creative mind.
The neigh-sayers will tell you that writing books are a waste of time. That you need a proper job. Well, I have one of those too, and now nothing can stop me putting pen to paper. I wrote when I didn't have a job, and I will write when all the work is done.
I hope that I have intrigued you and drawn you from a digital slumber, long enough to invite you to download a book of mine.
Thank you.
Writing is akin to breathing air or drinking water. Both are necessary for life, but writing gives you a little bit more. For Paul it gives him life itself, and sustains his creative mind.
The neigh-sayers will tell you that writing books are a waste of time. That you need a proper job. Well, I have one of those too, and now nothing can stop me putting pen to paper. I wrote when I didn't have a job, and I will write when all the work is done.
I hope that I have intrigued you and drawn you from a digital slumber, long enough to invite you to download a book of mine.
Thank you.
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March 11, 2020
Purchased on Amazon and recommended by a friend, thanks Cypress!!
This is a really different book - self published by the Author and untouched by the hands of a proof reader, we read the story exactly as writted by Paul Kilmartin.
It follows the life of an elderly lady, Anna Maguire. She has been hospitalised following a fall and with time on her hands she reminisces from the comfort of her hospital bed on her life's journey.
As a Nurse I loved the Author's view from Anna's bed, how he described what she saw, how she felt, how she analyzed the personalities of the different Nurses.
The timeline pops back and forth quite smoothly, the memories are intertwined with interruptions caused by daily activities on her ward and the fascinating account of the very confused patient in the bed opposite her.
The description of Mary and how she repeatedly drifted out of bed, wandering out of the room and sidetracking staff who were dealing with a cardiac arrest was spot on.
I found myself thinking that families haven't a clue how difficult it is for Nurses when they have to bring an unsteady elderly, confused patient back to bed over and over and over and still administer care to their other patients while repeatedly rushing back to check on the wandering Mary - whose families never come to visit. Kilmartin captured this perfectly.
The Author includes many sad realities, the breakup of friendships, the unwelcome daughter-in-law, the greedy relative delivering the weekly shop and trying to make a fool out of an old lady, yet he doesn't dwell on any of these in a preachy way.
By the time I finished the book I realised I was visualising it as a movie and in fact, it would make a great play also. I Loved it and wished it was longer.
This is a really different book - self published by the Author and untouched by the hands of a proof reader, we read the story exactly as writted by Paul Kilmartin.
It follows the life of an elderly lady, Anna Maguire. She has been hospitalised following a fall and with time on her hands she reminisces from the comfort of her hospital bed on her life's journey.
As a Nurse I loved the Author's view from Anna's bed, how he described what she saw, how she felt, how she analyzed the personalities of the different Nurses.
The timeline pops back and forth quite smoothly, the memories are intertwined with interruptions caused by daily activities on her ward and the fascinating account of the very confused patient in the bed opposite her.
The description of Mary and how she repeatedly drifted out of bed, wandering out of the room and sidetracking staff who were dealing with a cardiac arrest was spot on.
I found myself thinking that families haven't a clue how difficult it is for Nurses when they have to bring an unsteady elderly, confused patient back to bed over and over and over and still administer care to their other patients while repeatedly rushing back to check on the wandering Mary - whose families never come to visit. Kilmartin captured this perfectly.
The Author includes many sad realities, the breakup of friendships, the unwelcome daughter-in-law, the greedy relative delivering the weekly shop and trying to make a fool out of an old lady, yet he doesn't dwell on any of these in a preachy way.
By the time I finished the book I realised I was visualising it as a movie and in fact, it would make a great play also. I Loved it and wished it was longer.
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