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A Life Unstarted
A chance at a new life, a past that refuses to stay buried, and a dangerous encounter that threatens it all.
A new home and a new job, Victoria Turnbull is excited to get her life started—but hours after moving in with her boyfriend, her fairytale comes crashing down around her.
With no way out of her dreary reality, she jumps at a chance to start over when her friend Mel offers a, quite literal, escape. However paradise quickly turns to hell during a weekend break in Istanbul.
But this is not the first time Vicky has trusted the wrong people. Shamed into silence, can she summon the strength to confront her past, escape her captors and free both herself and Mel before it’s too late?
Packed with raw emotions, emotive backdrops and unexpected twists this fast-paced novella—the fearless prequel to ‘The Three Great Loves of Victoria Turnbull’ trilogy from new writer Isabella Wiles—is a coming-of-age story about the power of friendship and looking for love in all the wrong places.
A perfect read for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes and Jessie Burton.
A new home and a new job, Victoria Turnbull is excited to get her life started—but hours after moving in with her boyfriend, her fairytale comes crashing down around her.
With no way out of her dreary reality, she jumps at a chance to start over when her friend Mel offers a, quite literal, escape. However paradise quickly turns to hell during a weekend break in Istanbul.
But this is not the first time Vicky has trusted the wrong people. Shamed into silence, can she summon the strength to confront her past, escape her captors and free both herself and Mel before it’s too late?
Packed with raw emotions, emotive backdrops and unexpected twists this fast-paced novella—the fearless prequel to ‘The Three Great Loves of Victoria Turnbull’ trilogy from new writer Isabella Wiles—is a coming-of-age story about the power of friendship and looking for love in all the wrong places.
A perfect read for fans of Jodi Picoult, Jojo Moyes and Jessie Burton.
139 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 5, 2021
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About the author
Isabella Wiles
7 books7 followersDescribed as a modern-day Sidney Sheldon or Judith Krantz, Isabella writes epic novels. Stories that span continents and lifetimes.
Her novels are filled with passion and angst as well as heartbreak and hope, but most importantly, strong relatable characters that leave you uplifted. Her style of writing and story themes appeal to readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks and Colleen Hoover.
She is a self-confessed tea addict, a massive theatre 'loveie' and after a lifetime of travelling the globe she loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in her 'Writing Room', lighting the fire and thinking about her next plot twist.
Before becoming a fiction writer she had a successful career in sales and marketing and published two international best-sellers in non-fiction. She lives in north-east England with her husband, their two children and one loony Bassett Hound and two equally unhinged goldfish.
Her novels are filled with passion and angst as well as heartbreak and hope, but most importantly, strong relatable characters that leave you uplifted. Her style of writing and story themes appeal to readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks and Colleen Hoover.
She is a self-confessed tea addict, a massive theatre 'loveie' and after a lifetime of travelling the globe she loves nothing more than curling up on the sofa in her 'Writing Room', lighting the fire and thinking about her next plot twist.
Before becoming a fiction writer she had a successful career in sales and marketing and published two international best-sellers in non-fiction. She lives in north-east England with her husband, their two children and one loony Bassett Hound and two equally unhinged goldfish.
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May 12, 2021
A cracker of a book that leaves you wanting to know what happens to Victoria Turnbull in the subsequent trilogy. The main characters are fun and relatable, and the situations they get themselves in are realistic and thought provoking. It touches on modern feminist themes without ramming it down your throat. I'm really looking forward to reading more by Isabella Wiles.
October 12, 2021
Loved this one so much I had to get the first book in the trilogy. I can't wait to hear more about all the characters.
November 17, 2021
liked it.
April 16, 2023
Such an easy enjoyable quick read- I’m desperate to find out what happens to Victoria next!
May 22, 2023
The perfect introduction to the most epic romantic trilogy I have ever read! So... I came back to this and devoured it later, but that didn't matter. You could dive into this prequel at any point in your Victoria Turnbull reading journey and it would only enhance the experience!
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