instinct

by Jane West, Sarah Bowden

Some people spend their entire lives wishing for something like this to happen to them. Some people don’t spend a single second of their lives thinking about it at all. And some people, like me, wish they had never been given it. I don’t know when it started. I can’t remember. You would think such a crucial moment in someone’s life would make that person remember the moment forever. I have spent every day trying to remember. It forever changed my life, and as it would seem, not for the better.

I need to know. I need the truth.

Paperback

Published November 1, 2022

About the author

Born In Greywell, England in 1959, Jane West spent her childhood singing, dancing and acting, both on stage and screen.

Her experience with rejection is reflected in this compelling story of a pine tree's dream to become what he thought he was born to be...a Christmas tree. As a child, Jane was always writing stories, songs and poems, but her dream was to one day become a movie star.

Through unforeseen circumstances, in 1986, Jane and her six-year old daughter Katie, flew from England to California. As a single mother, she had to alternative but to give up her dream.

The struggles and fears that she faced over the years that followed turned out, better than she could have dreamed. Now living with her devoted husband Jay, and their two daughters, Katie and Julia, she is doing what comes naturally in her life-being a Mummy...and writing!