One Year with Dicky

About the Book

Dicky and Lizzie, despite being in their sixties and living alone for almost twenty years, got their lives intertwined-something which they both acknowledge as destined by God. Conservative Lizzie grew up in a household where sex was not mentioned in daily conversations, while modern-day Dicky’s outlook on the matter was the opposite. Every day, he sent Lizzie text messages of sexual jokes, which caused their budding friendship to be turbulent. But after months of daily exchange of text messages, they slowly chipped away the edges of their rough relationship, sculpting a beautiful friendship, such that not a day passed by without one missing the other. Then something suddenly happened to Dicky. He fell into depression, shutting himself away from the outside. Will it be the end of Dicky and Lizzie?

About the Author

Elizabeth Aguilar was born in a small town by a lake in the Philippines. Gathering clams in the very clear water of the lake at sunrise made her develop a love for art and writing so that she composed poems, wrote short stories, and painted in watercolour when she was in grade school. She was very good in figures, so she was made to pursue a career in accounting and business by her father and had no choice in a strictly paternal tradition of her society. She spent all her life in the corporate world, but the love for writing never left her that when she was convinced by her friends to attend a writing workshop in the early 2000. She gladly did, and there she met her mentor, a writer of books published in the Philippines, who encouraged her to write a novel, and she did. “The Secret Box” is the result of these efforts and is her first published book.