Rosemary Laird Author
Life Inspired Publishing
A Woman of Fortitude Published March 2025 by
Life Inspired Publishing
A Woman of Fortitude is an engaging true-life story taking the reader on a colourful trip around the world as the author hops from continent to continent with her husband who works in the oil industry, but it's the author's constant positive approach to living life and solving problems which is the real thread to the story.
She's heartbroken when her husband leaves her and shares emotional and tear-jerking events with the reader, but she doesn't allow herself to sink into depression. She draws on her positivity and reinvents herself as a professional photographer, buys a house and starts to earn a good living.
A pop-up on the author's computer suggests she internet dates. She signs up for several internet dating sites, but she doesn't treat her dates as romantic encounters with random strangers, she treats them as job interviews.
After 9 months she's dated 18 different men and taken the reader on an amusing journey of lust and losers. Finally, she fall in love with one of her dates and marries him.
Available to order from Waterstones, Blackwell's, Foyles, Amazon, The Haslemere Bookshop, One Tree Books, Petersfield and all good bookshops.
Recommended price:-hardback £15.99, paperback £9.99, kindle £2.99
Recommended for book clubs as it contains many subjects suitable for discussion.
Available to borrow from Haslemere Library, Surrey.
Covid Chronicles in Rhyme
Published April 2022
Available to order from Waterstones, Blackwell's, Foyles, Amazon, The Haslemere Bookshop and all other good independent bookshops.
Recommended price:- Hardback £34.96, Paperback £28.99, Kindle £3.99
For more information - www.covid-chronicles-in-rhyme.com
On the shelf in Haslemere Library, Surrey
Covid Chronicles in Rhyme is a weekly accurate and detailed record of the progress of the pandemic in the UK, with additional reference to its spread across the world. Each weekly record is written in rhyming couplets. Details include the spread of Covid-19, variants of the virus, vaccine development and treatment trialed and used.
Weekly records start from the announcement of lockdown in the UK on 23rd March 2020 and continue until January 2022 when the more transmissible, but milder Omicron variant, was causing widespread infections.
Covid Chronicles in Rhyme is packed with facts and statistics which sometimes paint a dark and depressing picture, but the last verse each week lightens the mood with a little optimism, comment or humour.
The seasonal effect on gardens throughout the year is part of the story. Photos of the author's garden through the seasons are used to introduce each month. Posters and signs which appeared during the pandemic are also used as illustrations.
Visit www.covid-chronicles-in-rhyme.com for more information about Covid Chronicles in rhyme