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Charlotte Castle

Charlotte Castle

About

I am the daughter of a successful novelist, I consider myself ‘chronically unemployable’, and admit to being astounded that my book has had such a positive reception.

To be honest, I started writing ‘Simon’s Choice’ out of a mixture of genuine desire to explore the horror of losing a child and a fair amount of desire to get out of mopping the kitchen floor. That people want to read it is wonderful.

A school governor for my daughter’s primary school and actively involved in my local ‘Community Action Group’, I juggle writing with cleaning up after a man who is “completely unfamiliar with the term ‘washing basket’”, my cat and my two children.

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>

Story Behind The Book

I was just having a chat with a friend. We were discussing what we would do if we were to experience the horror of having a child that was going to die. My friend said ‘I’d offer to go with her to heaven’. A shiver ran down my spine and I sat down that very afternoon and started writing the book.

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<p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Comment from Kim Jewell, author of ‘Invisible Justice’: </span></strong><em><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Emotionally charged, vivid detail, delivered with a loving touch that makes the reader feel a part of the family and their turmoil.</span></em><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"> <span> </span></span></strong></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"></span></strong></p><p> </p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Comment by David Loftus, author of ‘End Time Gentlemen’: </span></strong><em><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">I can hear them setting my table in Hell now because there were parts of this that made me laugh. The fact that it's about something so dark and traumatic gives it a real edge. Powerful rather than bathetic. An excellent book that deserves to do tremendously well.</span></em><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"><span>  </span></span></strong></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"></span></strong></p><p> </p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Comment by Sly, author of Stonefish: </span></strong><em><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">I couldn't stop reading. It turns from heart warming to heart breaking, with no 'reality Etch a Sketch'. Seldom has a piece of fiction moved me so much. The reader becomes so deeply enmeshed in this entire family and its tragedy.</span></em></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"></span></p><p> </p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Comment from author Garlen Lo: </span></strong><em><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">A great writer. Clear, crisp, with that all important great 'voice.'</span></em><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"></span></strong></p><p></p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;"></span></strong></p><p> </p> <p style="line-height:150%;margin:0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">Comment from Patricia Herlevi, author of ‘All Saints’ Day’: </span></strong><em><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:10.5pt;">A powerful and transformative novel about battling with an illness, free of clichés and stereotypes and full of humanity.<span>  </span></span></em></p><p></p>