Molly Anstruther makes marmalade when she's fed up with life. She's got cause to be. She's been stuck in a marriage to Frank for more than 25 years, ever since he took young Molly by force while she was still in high school, got her pregnant, and married her reluctantly. She miscarried at four months; it was not a foetus but an abnormal growth. Later attempts at pregnancy also failed but Molly put up with Frank's rough and insensitive love-making for years, hoping for a family.Her only value to Frank was, and is, economic; she stood to inherit money. He expects her to work, pockets her wages and uses them to run the household while he, a finance broker, builds an investment portfolio. From his position of prestige and wealth, he looks down at her lowly job. Molly's salvation has been a satisfying work history. She has risen to be the valued assistant of the boss, Peter Piper, the Pickle King. They all love Molly at the pickle works. Molly's favourite employee is Jake Morgan, the security guard, born in Australia to American parents, who stayed on after his father left the US Navy Communications Base in Western Australia and retired to the San Fernando Valley. Jake had a brief career in Australian Rules football but then joined the Australian Defence Force. He's also wondering what to do with his life as the boss has sold the pickle plant.Molly, preparing for the pickle plant's wind-up party, discovers she has had a win on a lottery. She's not sure how much but, such is her fear of Frank's grasping ways that she posts the winning ticket to her aunt. She has decided to leave Frank and wants him to have no share of any money she may get. At the party she is drawn to Jake and drives him home as he has had too many drinks to drive. They make love in a search for mutual comfort. Molly discovers for the first time that sex is a GOOD thing. Will Molly and Jake be able to start a new life and new family together, or will Frank's dodgy financial dealings ruin her financially and emotionally.
Author Biography:
About the author Wendy Evans is a Welsh nut who, brought up in an Air Force family, travelled widely in UK. After scholarship studies in English language and literature, geography, art and comparative religion, she attended the University of Wales, where she took a BSc in geography, geology, economics, and biology. She taught in UK and Germany while married to an RAF officer, with whom she had three children, working as an artist during the vegetable years. They migrated to Australia and spent 14 years in the Pilbara iron ore mines where she worked as a mine geologist and geological cartographic artist. She ran art and drama classes, community organizations, wrote and staged revues and plays, ran a community coffee shop and became the entertainment manager for large social club, staging top international acts. Wendy wrote for the West Australian (state daily) and its North West paper for eight years, as well as free-lancing for four other daily, Sunday and regional papers. She had a late child and started writing stories during that period, winning several awards, and writing folk music for WA's 150th celebrations, a major musical narrative, now on CD, and a musical drama for the National Folk Festival. When the Evans's returned to city life she became a full time journalist, winning major awards, writing humorous and satirical columns syndicated across 13 papers. She wrote the Community Newspaper style-book and trained its cadets. As a member of the National Speakers Association she was in demand by community groups for talks on the importance of recording family history and ways to use the media. *** Wendy passed away in 2008 with almost 20 unpublished novels completed - her works are being published by her daughters, Leigh, Suzanne and Michelle. She is still greatly missed by friends and family. If you enjoyed this book, please take the time to recommend it to other purchasers with a review or star rating via your retailer.
