About
Phillip Overton is the author of three novels, Last Wish of Summer, A Walk Before Sunrise and The Long Way Home. A writer with the ability to create extraordinary tales from the ashes of ordinary circumstance, his works have been compared to Nicholas Sparks and William P Young, author of the NY Times bestseller The Shack. With a background in poetry spanning more than two decades, he has also released four collections of poetry, with more work planned for the future.
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
An entrant in the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the 15th Annual Writer's Digest self-published book award and the 2007 Queensland Premier's Book Awards, Australian author Phillip Overton's first novel The Long Way Home has been compared with William P. Young's million copy bestseller The Shack.
Reviews
<div><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;color:#111111;">INSPIRING MESSAGE. THE LONG WAY HOME by author Phillip Overton explores the question of why bad things happen to good people. With an inspiring theme, the book centres on the lives of Doug and Rowena Small and their son, Simon. Overton's descriptive passages vividly set the stage and bring the setting of Gosford, Australia to life. The author's voice rings through without being intrusive or overwhelming. The story moves along at a pace appropriate to the story and situation. The story concept is compelling and includes the right amount of suspense to keep the reader's interest. The compulsion to turn the page stays with the reader from start to finish.<br /><br /><strong style="font-family:Tahoma;">Official Review from 15th Annual Writer's Digest International self-published Book Awards, USA</strong></span></span></div>
