Carnage: Book #1 The Story Of Us (Volume 1)(190)

And it was, more than he could ever know, in that moment I realise, it was a start, a very, very small start but a start nonetheless, the tinniest of steps forwards, the very first time this year that I have actually wanted to do something. It wasn’t much of a something, but by getting in that car and driving, my mind would have to focus on something other than my Husband, my Son and my own death and as I stand with my brother’s arm around me, staring at my beloved Hilda, I suddenly feel the merest glimmer of hope, hope that I might just get through my empty, painful, black hole of a life.

CARNAGE

PLAY LIST

The Jam, Liza Radley

The Jam, Start

The Jam, English Rose

Queen, Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Dire Straits, Romeo & Juliet

Gloria Estefan, Don’t Wanna Lose You

Alexander O’Neal, Fake

Soul 11 Soul, Back To Life

I owe so many thank yous with regard to this book, firstly to my family for once again putting up with unwashed clothes and an unwashed Mum and Wife as well as lots of uncooked dinners and un-mopped floors, they are slowly but surely realising that ‘Feral’ is the way things are in our home whenever I’m writing but they love and support me regardless and I love them beyond measure for it.

Kaylene, I really cannot thank you enough only you and I know exactly what you did and I’m eternally grateful!

To my Beta readers, I thank you for your time and your honesty.

To my SC ladies, Vix, Kaz, Tash, Nic, Chell and even Wendy who couldn’t bring herself to read Carnage unless I could assure her of an HEA, which sadly with this book I couldn’t, I thank you all regardless, for your love, support, unprintable conversations, your humour and just for always being there, despite the miles, I love ya lots, like Jelly Tots.

To my Twitter Pimps, Ally, Peita, Mags, Sara, Nellie, OfficeLady, Gi Gi, Susie and everyone else that has tweeted, retweeted and recommended my books, I thank you.

To Rachael from DCT Promotions and Rebecca @ www.thefinalwrap.com for my amazing cover, I thank you all for your patience.

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Lesley was born and raised in a small working class town in Essex, just outside of East London. She’s married with three sons and in 2006 they all moved to the other side of the world, settling on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula, about fifty kilometres outside of Melbourne Australia.

Lesley is currently ‘a stay at home mum’, but in the past she has worked at ‘good old Mark & Spencer’ for thirteen years and as a teacher’s assistant.

As well as writing, Lesley loves to read and has been known to get through four or five books a week, when she’s not writing that is. Her other interests are watching her boys play football… the round ball version. She’s happy to admit to being an addict of social media and owes a lot to her Face book and Twitter family in promoting her book. Lesley is also rather partial to a glass or bottle of wine, a nicely chilled Marlborough Sav Blanc being her favourite.

Being a born and raised Essex girl, she will happily admit to be being a big fan of spray tans, Shellac and is regularly, waxed, tinted and sculpted, although she doesn’t own a pair of white stilettos…

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