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Learning to Fly
When the ground’s cut from under your feet … there’s only one thing for it …
Things are looking pretty grim for kind-hearted stay-at-home mum Lucia. Taken for granted by her ungrateful daughters, talked down to by her glamorous best friend and cheated on by her architect husband, Lucia thinks things couldn’t get much worse … until she walks out of her delightful suburban home and moves into a dingy flat above the railway tracks. At forty-and-a-bit she’s wondering if this is the end of the line.
Following a botched attempt to end it all, Lucia suddenly realises that she’s, quite literally, not alone. She has a celestial being called Dariel by her side, and he’s determined to be her guide. But despite his beguiling looks and angelic nature, Dariel has a few dodgy habits of his own, and he has to sort himself out before he can get back to where he came from. Over the course of a Dublin summer, Dariel makes himself comfortable on Lucia’s sofa, and as an unlikely friendship blossoms, Lucia discovers that there’s more to life than she’d ever imagined.
Things are looking pretty grim for kind-hearted stay-at-home mum Lucia. Taken for granted by her ungrateful daughters, talked down to by her glamorous best friend and cheated on by her architect husband, Lucia thinks things couldn’t get much worse … until she walks out of her delightful suburban home and moves into a dingy flat above the railway tracks. At forty-and-a-bit she’s wondering if this is the end of the line.
Following a botched attempt to end it all, Lucia suddenly realises that she’s, quite literally, not alone. She has a celestial being called Dariel by her side, and he’s determined to be her guide. But despite his beguiling looks and angelic nature, Dariel has a few dodgy habits of his own, and he has to sort himself out before he can get back to where he came from. Over the course of a Dublin summer, Dariel makes himself comfortable on Lucia’s sofa, and as an unlikely friendship blossoms, Lucia discovers that there’s more to life than she’d ever imagined.
287 pages, Paperback
Published August 11, 2022
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September 18, 2022
Such an enjoyable book. The story is warm, and witty and honest with insights and characters that linger on. Set in Dublin, Ireland it follows the journey of Lucia a middle aged wife and mother who moves out of her home and safe middle class life when she and her cheating husband , Jonathan, split up. Initially overwhelmed she decides to end it all. But it’s not her time as Dariel, an angel with issues, tells her. He’s been tasked with bringing her back to face her challenges. And some of his own. With Dariel as her ‘wing man’ Lucia meets people and has experiences she’d never have had if she’d stayed in her safe life.
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