An Ordinary Life - Amanda Prowse

Genre: Fiction

Release Date: 9th February 2021

It's Christmas Eve, 2019.

Molly is dying.

She knows that, and as she lays in her hospital bed to every passer-by she looks like just another frail 94-year old woman. Ordinary.

But she is far from that.

From her bed, Marvelous Molly relives almost a century of sadness, war and secrets... and of love, excitement and laughter. Counting the days backwards, we explore all the true loves and losses that Molly has lived through and still holds in her heart to this day. All of this is jotted down in a letter intended for her son ... and I really hope he gets to read it one day.

I fell in love with Molly from the moment I met her, first of all loving her like a kind grandmother and watching her form into a beautiful woman, a mother a law-breaker, a lover ... an entire person that society often forgets that can be hidden inside an elderly body.

Beautifully breathtaking, this tale of a beautiful life kept me in a constant state of wanting to cry and smile at the same time. Vivid and vibrant, I was sucked back in time to dance and laugh with Molly ... a woman who proved that life, in all it's ups and downs, is anything but ordinary.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to NetGalley and Amanda Prowse for this ARC.

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