In the meantime, I can't promise to leave it alone entirely. I'll be thinking about the synopsis and blurb and already I find myself saving draft text messages with thoughts.
For now, here's the first draft of the blurb. Please don't judge a book by it's initial blurb! This is just a starting point. As with Orla's Code, I'll probably change it about a million times before I'm happy.
Beverly has made her life manageable. Her best friend and flatmate, Ella, answers the phone, answers the door and introduces Beverly at parties. She could be jealous of Ella's gregarious charm and the spotlight she lives under, except her long-term boyfriend Roland provides romance and security and means she never has to face the dating scene. She works from home and only corresponds by email because she has a bad stutter.
We join Beverly's story six months after Roland has broken it off. Ella has been her rock more than ever but on this regular Sunday morning, as they dissect the night before, Ella confesses that Roland has asked her on a date and she intends to say yes. Beverly is ready to end their friendship. But shortly after, she is faced with a bigger dilemma: she has to do a presentation at Work or lose her job. Now she needs Ella's help more than ever...
Thoughts and comments are of course welcome.
The sentence, 'Upon speaking to others I have found that it is a very common theme amongst so many. The feeling that there has to be more … We feed our minds and bodies with all the right nourishment but that feeling of hunger in the pit of our stomach just won’t go away.' could be better expressed, I think. It's a little clumsy, though the information is good.
ReplyDeleteperhaps there would be a way to link those thoughts in with the fact she was never jealous....until......
Thanks for your comment, Christine. I know what you mean about linking the jealously to the ex-boyfriend. You must have been multitasking when you pasted in the quote ;)
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