Thirteen Stops by Sandra Harris

Author:Sandra Harris [Harris, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kindle unlimited, Amazon Betseller, British & Irish Contemporary Biographical Adventure, contemporary fiction, Contemporary Women, genre fiction, Historical, Historical British, Historical European, Historical Fiction, Historical United States, Historical Women's Fiction Romance Sagas, Irish, Irish Suspense Classics, Literature & Fiction, Poolbeg Press, romance, Romance Humor Suspense, Women's Fiction, ebook, short stories, Maeve Binchy, Cathy kelly, marian Keyes, Patricia Scnalan
ISBN: 9781781997482
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Published: 2020-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

Gerry had nearly had an apoplectic fit when their daughter and only child, Leah, had decided to defer her own teacher-training college for a year and go travelling, something that not many people had been doing in the early 2000s. Afterwards, of course, it had become tremendously popular and then almost the norm, but back then Gerry had completely failed to comprehend why Leah would want to do such an unorthodox, irresponsible thing.

“Travelling?” he’d said as if he’d never heard the word before. “What do you mean, you want to go travelling?”

Leah, a beautiful girl with long light-brown hair and a free-spirited personality that Liz was convinced she couldn’t possibly have inherited from her soulless father, had stared back at him in surprise and said: “Travelling, Dad. As in, back-packing through Europe and maybe parts of Asia as well, you know? I’ll never get another chance to see a bit of the world, not once I’ve done my teacher-training and found a job in a school somewhere. A holiday here and there isn’t exactly the same thing.”

“She’s right, Gerry,” Liz had put in from the sink where she’d been drying up the breakfast dishes. “Why not let her go now and get it out of her system once and for all? She’ll be much more inclined to settle down once she comes back, won’t you, lovey?”

Leah could always rely on her mother’s support, although Liz had never told her daughter that she’d always regretted giving up her job as a primary schoolteacher to support Gerry’s much more important career as an accountant. He’d needed a good, faithful wife in the background to cook lovely dinners for his colleagues so they’d think what a great family man Gerry was, just the kind of man they wanted as a partner in the firm. It had taken years, though, and a great many such dinners, for Gerry to achieve his dream of full partnership. By that time, Liz had long grown disenchanted with the whole concept of marriage, and with sacrificing one’s own dreams for the sake of your spouse’s. The notion had grown decidedly stale and dull over time.

Together, Liz and Leah had worked on Gerry until eventually – and very reluctantly – he’d agreed to let Leah defer her teacher-training college place for a year to go backpacking on the Continent and across Asia for a year with a friend from school, a girl called Susan. It wouldn’t be so bad if their daughter and only child was going with a friend they knew and trusted from Leah’s schooldays. What had happened next was something for which Gerry had never forgiven Liz, even though of course it had no more been Liz’s fault than the Man in the Moon’s. Whilst travelling through Bulgaria, Leah had met and fallen head-over-heels in love with an impoverished artist called Gorka, a handsome fella with an artistic soul and sheer magic in his paintbrush. Leah had actually married this young man within a few weeks

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