All That Was Lost
Description
In 1967 Patience Bickersleigh is a teenager who discovers a talent for telling people what they want to hear. Fifty years later she is Patrice Leigh, a nationally celebrated medium. But cracks are forming in the carefully constructed barriers that keep her real history at bay.
Leo is the journalist hired to write Patrice's biography. Struggling to reconcile the demands of his family, his grief for his lost son, and his need to understand his own background, Leo becomes more and more frustrated at Patrice's refusal to open up.
Because behind closed doors, Patrice is hiding more than one secret. And it seems that now, her past is finally catching up with her.
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Person
Alison May is a novelist, short story writer, blogger and creative writing tutor who grew up in North Yorkshire, and now lives in Worcester. She has worked as a waitress, a shop assistant, a learning adviser, an advice centre manager, a freelance trainer, and now a maker-upper of stories. Alison is also a former Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
She won the RNA's Elizabeth Goudge trophy in 2012, and has been shortlisted in the Love Stories and RoNA Awards. Alison writes emotional book club fiction and romantic comedies.
She also writes modern retellings of misunderstood classics, in collaboration with Janet Gover, under the penname Juliet Bell.
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