Press Release Summary = Marie is unwillingly catapulted from mother and housewife to President as the country is thrown into chaos, and the male population of the world starts to die following a devastating meteor storm.
Press Release Body = Marie is unwillingly catapulted from mother and housewife to President as the country is thrown into chaos, and the male population of the world starts to die following a devastating meteor storm. Survival is precarious and she has to find new strengths and depths if she is to orchestrate a new world order.
About the Author: Virginia West was born in Weymouth and raised in Oxfordshire, before moving to Northamptonshire in the early 1980s. She won her first writing competition at the age of 6. It has taken 41 years for her to allow others to read her work. Her story lines explore extraordinary events from an ordinary person's perspective.
Excerpt from the book: \"An ordinary day by any measure. Marie watched as her breath turned to vapour - an isolated figure in a patchwork of garden. Her small piece of England; all that she would ever own.
November the 25th. No sun, no wind, and the country had been swept into the clutches of first frost and the promise of snow. The shrubs in her small but perfect garden bowed their heads in shame, their frigid violation witnessed only by the stars.
This was by far the best part of any day; whatever the season; whatever the weather. 5 AM and every morning Marie would position herself at the small table in her favourite garden chair, smoking her one cigarette of the day and waiting for the dawn chorus to reach full volume and intensity. Before the traffic and noise pollution of inner-town life took hold, the innocence of this hour was charming and really quite beautiful in such an ugly and dirty world.
Marie was angry this morning for taking her seat late, fearful that she might miss something extraordinary and new. She remembered in the seventies, the first time she heard a blackbird mimic a trim phone - how clever and underestimated this bird was and how very sad that its latest repertoire consisted of police sirens and car alarms. To taint such beauty saddened Marie beyond belief."
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