Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly

Author:Cathy Kelly [Kelly, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Europe, History, Ireland
ISBN: 9781405686921
Google: bfSDuzZSrXgC
Amazon: B003E7EW1O
Barnesnoble: B003E7EW1O
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2008-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

It makes you wonder what’s going on in our world when girls like her look in the mirror and hate what they see. She shouldn’t hate what she sees.

Things aren’t good here. My grandmother had a stroke and still hasn’t recovered. It’s a waiting game now and the longer she stays in a coma, the less chance there is of her coming out of it without neurological damage. I guess I’m saying goodbye to her.

Izzie wiped away the wetness that suddenly came to her eyes.

But I was thinking, before I wrote this, that at least Gran has lived her life. She’s done so much, not like poor Shawnee. Talk soon, Izzie.

Izzie wasn’t entirely sure of everything her grandmother had done, but she knew it had been a packed life. A person didn’t get the wisdom Gran had without having seen and understood a huge amount. Anneliese had mentioned that Jodi, the Australian girl, had offered to find out who Jamie was. Maybe Izzie should talk to her too.

‘Everything happens for a reason,’ Gran used to say. She’d said it when Izzie missed out on a job in London and decided it was time to go to the States.

Perhaps Gran had called out the name ‘Jamie’ so that Izzie would look into her past and learn something from it. The more she thought about it, the more sense it made. Looking into her grandmother’s past would be as near as she could get to actually talking to darling Gran. Her brief moment of lucidity had to be a message to them all.

And this email from Lola was another.

Remember your dreams, was what it said. Before Joe, she’d had a dream about starting an agency where girls wouldn’t have to starve themselves like poor Shawnee in order to be successful.

Perfect-NY was a good and reputable agency. They had never condoned the practice of checking how skinny girls were by measuring their fingers. It worked better than measuring wrists, because some people were big boned; but fingers gave a pretty accurate indication of whether someone was thin or not.

Reputable agencies didn’t do things like that. Nobody wanted sick models on their books and most of the companies had really good relationships with their models, but the industry itself had a dark, cruelly commercial heart that was oblivious to kindness.

If the darkness was to be driven out, the battle would have to be fought from inside the industry. SilverWebb could do it, Izzie hoped. But first, she had to let go of Perfect-NY. And Joe Hansen.

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