Charlie's Girl

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This is a compelling story of love, luxury, abuse, abandonment, betrayal, murder, and survival, where victims become heroes by breaking the cycle to help other victims.

The characters intertwine between the settings of an overwrought family in England and the frivolous, sensuous world of yachting in South Florida, USA.

Claudia Jacobson-Hume is a stunning nineteen-year-old at the end of her final year of school, having achieved all the goals she set for herself. She is thrilled through her success to be able to pay back something to her adoptive parents, and today is a new day in her life, a new beginning, with her past years of abuse behind her. But her sense of pride is shattered when her parents do not arrive for the presentations on the last day.

Later, distraction arrives in the handsome form of Charlie, an American who had come to England in search of his birth mother. He is immediately attracted to Claudia, not just for her green eyes and Titian hair, but also for a familiar, recognizable sadness. Taken by her strength and independence, he is determined to help her overcome her and accept who she is.

A page-turning, fascinating rollercoaster; a truly special story worth reading once more.

From an early age of 9, I was placed with my older sister into a convent school as termly boarders; my father, having come back from India, did not think the village school was appropriate.

For 8/9 years I achieved the lead soprano title. I excelled in art, writing, and sports. I left school and did a secretarial course, and during that time met a qualified art restorer and learnt the art of restoration.

I married young at 20 and had 4 children. I never lost my love of art and writing. My husband owned a large estate, and our 4 children had the freedom to play in the fields and explore the woods. Our passion was racehorses along with farming.

In the early 1970s, in order to keep the estate in the family, we moved to an island called Jersey, which is a British Crown Dependency.

I continued with my art restoration and at the same time began to write the beginnings of some of my books. We were lucky enough to own a house in Florida and a house in France. I continued to write in both places; it was my passion. Over the years I wrote four children’s books in French and English, which I also illustrated, one of which has been published.

Unfortunately, in around 2011 my husband was diagnosed with dementia. The next few years of my life were spent caring for him until my dear husband died in 2019.

For those 8 years of nursing my husband, I had to give up my passion for writing entirely. Before my husband’s illness, I wrote my first novel “Affairs”, which was entered into the peoples Booker Prize, at the same time I then began my second novel “Charlie’s Girl”, which I am thrilled to say has also been published.

I am now getting my life back and continue writing, and hope to write many more novels.