One year ago (June 4th 2019), A Lifetime of Impossible Days was born into this world.
Writing this book was easily the bravest thing I have ever done. When I was healing, I would often say to my counsellor how much I wished I could go back and love the little girl that I was and how sorry I was for hating her. Through writing Super Gumboots Willa I got to do exactly this. It wasn’t long before a much older character wanted to speak to me about fighting for a healthy future.
Through writing Silver Willa, the ninety-three-year-old character, I began exploring how much our future self might really care about the outcomes of our healing. I wanted to show what might be at stake if ‘present-day self’ never healed and kept running from the pain of the past. This meant my story needed a ‘present-day self’ and Middle Willa, aged thirty-three, walked onto the page.
The Willas at three different ages met and fought for Willa their future. This story became my emotional truth and my fight for self-love presented a totally fictional world.
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**You have until Sunday 7th of June to enter. Winner will be announced on Monday the 8th of June.
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