This unconventional love story was listed and fairly rated on Goodreads by its readers for months without the author even knowing about it. Agatha de Loon is an indie writer who published her only book secretly. She lives somewhere in Europe, but her writing has been only read in the United States and Canada with exclusivity to a platform with unlimited lending. However, without agent and marketing possibilities, upset by advertising schemes that endanger her discretion, she decided to unpublish and destroy her book. Serendipity made her happen on her own novel on Goodreads at a moment when she badly needed support. Encouraged by the five-star ratings of people who loved her book, she decided to give up on exclusivity and make her novel available on multiple platforms worldwide.
Her story is that of a middle-aged middle-school teacher who takes her classes on a trip to London. An accident rapidly breaks the well-organized routine of her journey. She undergoes an unexpected encounter that turns quickly into an odd relationship. Through situations that sometimes seem mindboggling to her but comical with hindsight, her vision of right and wrong gets rapidly out of understanding. Her welling feelings will transform her acceptance of a simple dutiful existence into an overwhelming desire to get a chance for a second life, with someone beyond her expectations. But we only live once, don't we?
This weird romance of a heartrending dilemma evolves into questioning on women's condition in modern society, and our ability to embrace our destiny on our heart's command. Mind over matter and especially, mind over feelings is a rule that governs our existence while we pretend desperately to be free to do what we want. Sentiments are only one, today often unmentionable, almost shameful part of your life. The world you live those sentiments in is an entirely different matter. Happiness is beyond human nature for good reason.
If you are looking for a neat, professional entertainment written in batch to hook you into a complicated intrigue and an endless plot: pass your way! If you are digging for the future prize-winner author adulated by critics and editors: pass your way! But if you think that you can enjoy something less conventional, out of the mainstream, if you feel that you have the empathy to embrace a unique point of view and the tolerance for an unusual writing style, you are at the right place. Your patience and curiosity will be rewarded by a journey through a three-day-long bittersweet dream.
