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Jacky Atkins

Jacky Atkins

About

My first children's novel, The Mysterious Beach Hut, was published in the USA in April 2009, but I have previousely had poems and short stories published. I live in Cobham, Surrey, with my husband, Richard. We have 4 children and 6 grandchildren, so children play an important part in my life! As well as writing, I am a PA for my husband's firm of Chartered Accountants and Company secretary to my son's company. I am a member of Mother's Union, through which I work as a volunteer playleader in the Visits Hall of a local 'category B' men's prison. I am involved with my church, love travel, walking and gardening

Friends in High Places

Friends in High Places

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<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>

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<p style="text-align:center;margin:.65pt 0cm 16.2pt;background:#ffffff;" class="ecmsonormal" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"><font size="3">Review of The Mysterious Beach Hut</font></span></em></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align:center;margin:.65pt 0cm 16.2pt;background:#ffffff;" class="ecmsonormal" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"><font size="3">By Nickie Croese</font></span></em></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align:center;margin:.65pt 0cm 16.2pt;background:#ffffff;" class="ecmsonormal" align="center"><em><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"><font size="3">24.06.09</font></span></em></p> <p></p> <p style="margin:.65pt 0cm 16.2pt;background:#ffffff;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"></span> </p> <p></p> <p style="margin:.65pt 0cm 16.2pt;background:#ffffff;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">“No ordinary time travel book for children, this story has many twists and turns which will keep readers of all ages guessing until the unexpected ending. The author skillfully weaves past and present in her tale of two young sisters who sometimes stepped through the door of their beach hut in 2001 and found themselves back in 1914. They wanted to find out why this had happened to them and more about the people they met in the past. The book is lightly written but the explanation and the dénouement are thought-provoking for young and old alike. I couldn’t put it down!”</span><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#444444;font-size:10pt;"></span></p> <p></p>