All at Sea

About the Book

Sue is the woman who has everything: brains, beauty, wealth, and status through her marriage to Simon, the Hospital Consultant, yet with a defencelessness that makes everybody want to protect, even possess her. Vulnerable, Sue hovers between the old and the new. When she loses control the result is horrific and disastrous. Her world collapses and the lives of those who know her are changed forever. But has the narrative ended there? Thank God for those who demonstrate stability! New relationships will be forged; children will develop. People’s flaws and strengths will make an impact on those around: so long as the seas continue to ebb and flow, the Story of Life can never end. Olive Clarke has given us another gripping tale where there is the tendency for disaster to follow the caprices of fallible humans. Despite everything we move on as best we can, and somehow the Author brings relief through her management of both storyline and imaginative language.

About the Author

Olive has enjoyed a career in primary school teaching as a Deputy Head, has taught adults in this country and the USA. She has been a Church Warden, wise friend and committed cat lover over many years. Latterly she has been nurtured in an excellent nursing home, since suffering a severe stroke in 2012, which has left her bed-bound, and from which vantage point she continues to write with great sensitivity. Her delightful stories reflect Olive’s life skills and interests: her acquired wisdom mirrored in the wildcats of the mountains, a perceptive understanding of the hierarchy of management within human and animal circles, and maybe the most profound, her insights into the mysterious workings of a God who loves unconditionally, and perpetually shows a way through life’s impenetrable barriers, even for the most unlikely candidates. Yet Olive never preaches: her sensibilities are completely natural: in fact one may pass over or miss such subtleties at times without judgment, or detriment to the text. She uses beautiful descriptive language, and the prophetic poetry slipped into the narrative adds a magic all of its own. Be prepared then for the ultimate page-turner, which none-the-less leaves you with much food for thought.