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Bestselling Chick Lit Author Dies
Can't remember seeing this back in October. She wrote under the pseudonym Zoe Barnes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248414/Chick-lit-author-Susan-Morgan-kills-marriage-break-up.html
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Very sad.
And I heard that another best-selling author, Marian Keyes, is in the throes of depression.
It kind of puts some of the angst we suffer over our writing into perspective.
Edited: Bad taste joke.[/quote]
Ahhh I want to know what that was now.
[quote=LeeH]I never heard about that and I live on that island, [/quote]
Hey Lee my dad is from the IoM, Douglas.
*Feel free to throw rotten fruit*
A marriage breaks down, the myth explodes. A lot of women have built their whole lives around the myth.
It can be devastating especially if you have been married for a long time. I don't know any of this womans history but I would have been lost if I hadn't had my children to keep going for, their needs had to come first. I do remember feeling at one point that I hadn't been given a choice in anything...HE had decided to leave, everything was on his terms (he would only occasionally have the kids at his convenience and expected me to drop everything and fit in around him) and that he hadn't even left me with the option of ending it all. I remember thinking I wish I could but that would have been unbearable for the kids because they would have no mother or father...so he could walk away and I couldn't. (A bit of a long way of saying that it is easy for any of us to feel suicidal).
I think the genre reference is just a headline grabber really.