A Family Affair

About the Book

A Family affair, could just be a play on words. About an affair? About a family? In this case, about both. Which takes precedence? The family or the affair? In this, sometimes whimsical, humorous, poignant, heart- felt story, it can be said, to be all this, and more. Many diverse, vibrant, true to life plethora of characters, paragraphs of people, tread these corridors of words, which lead where? To Life, to love, to hope…. To dead-ends? Filling the pages with expectancy, desire, it tells the story primarily of a young man, Liam, and his love for Paula. She, however, is not all she would seem to be. There are many layers to her personality, and she has many men in her life. Not least being, Alistair McKendrick, Liam’s father. What did Liam or his father mean to her? You will have to read the book to find out. Who would she choose? Did she want or need to? Not just a love story, far more than that! For running throughout its pages, is entwined, another, which recounts that of an ageing adventurer, Hector Carruthers, a reluctant thrill seeker, told through his journals, left to his wife Geraldine. She, never interested in his exploits, left them to gather dust, until Liam’s arrival in her life, when they were resurrected, dusted down, and devoured with interest by him. Hector’s story is intermingled with that of the other. Yet another layer, of the story’s intricate web, to catch the imagination of the reader.

About the Author

As Denise Cory Blake, the teller of tales, the weaver of words, I unravel the intricate stories ‘web, page by page, drawing my unsuspecting readers into the wonder of my imagination. Each novel, is different, diverse in its origins. They come from a mind which is vibrant, eager, as in my youth, for despite my advancing years, I am still a mischievous child at heart. From this, has come; - ‘Sailor, sailor’, a tale of ww2, based loosely on my parent’s war time experiences, ‘The writing on the wall’, about three brothers in ww1, Guy De Tournet, child of revolution, son of France’. A French man who follows Bonaparte into the frozen wastes of 1812 Russia where he finds love amongst the Cossacks. Yet, far more than just a love story. As is - ‘Beneath a crescent moon’, woven in the present and the past, between Christian and Arab. My latest: - ‘A family Affair’, is different again. It tells the poignant story of the McKendrick’s, the father and son’s love for the same woman, and the emotional turmoil that causes between them.