Rebecca's Revenge
I have just released my first ‘strictly adult’ novel entitled ‘Rebecca’s Revenge.’ It tells the story of a young West Yorkshire woman who finds herself abandoned by her mother, abused by her loving father, deserted by her lover and best friend and rejected by her village community during her teenage years of identity crisis.
The book deals with the central theme of ‘rape and revenge’ and is set in the rural setting of West Yorkshire, the mills of Lancashire, the fashion houses of Paris, the business world and board rooms of New York, America and the idyllic setting of the Caribbean.
When her lover and best friend is raped by the son of a rural squire; her mother abandons the family home after an affair with the plumber, her father physically and sexually abuses her before killing himself and her village ostracises and rejects her, 17-year-old Sally Cartwright runs away from Mirfield, West Yorkshire and travels to nearby Manchester to make a new life for herself in its mills while living in the back streets of Salford.
Over the years, Sally remains motivated by the thought of revenge and promises herself to one day return to Mirfield and exact it. After her life in the working class areas of Manchester, Sally changes her identity and career and enters the world of high fashion. We next find her as one of the leading fashion models on the cat walk in France where she meets and marries a business mogul despite being lesbian in sexual orientation. After the death of her older husband, she takes over as head of his vast business empire. She eventuallyreturns to Mirfield as the titled Lady Rebecca Deevers, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the world to seek the revenge that she has harboured for decades.
‘Rebecca’s Revenge’ was written over twenty years ago and spans the period between the 1950s and the New Millennium. I initially refrained from having it published because of my ‘children’s author credentials and charity work’. I felt that it would have conflicted too adversely with the image I had taken a decade or more to establish with my audience and young person readership. Now, however as I approach the final years of my life and care less about my public image, besides no longer writing for children (only short stories for adults since 2010), I feel the time to be appropriate to publish this ‘strictly for adults only’ novel alongside the remainder of my work.
It is attainable in e-book format from www.smashwords.com, www.lulu.com and also in Kindle from Amazon. Those of you who prefer the physical hard copy edition, it is now available directly from the publisher, and also from www.lulu.com and Amazon.
William Forde August 9th, 2014.
The book deals with the central theme of ‘rape and revenge’ and is set in the rural setting of West Yorkshire, the mills of Lancashire, the fashion houses of Paris, the business world and board rooms of New York, America and the idyllic setting of the Caribbean.
When her lover and best friend is raped by the son of a rural squire; her mother abandons the family home after an affair with the plumber, her father physically and sexually abuses her before killing himself and her village ostracises and rejects her, 17-year-old Sally Cartwright runs away from Mirfield, West Yorkshire and travels to nearby Manchester to make a new life for herself in its mills while living in the back streets of Salford.
Over the years, Sally remains motivated by the thought of revenge and promises herself to one day return to Mirfield and exact it. After her life in the working class areas of Manchester, Sally changes her identity and career and enters the world of high fashion. We next find her as one of the leading fashion models on the cat walk in France where she meets and marries a business mogul despite being lesbian in sexual orientation. After the death of her older husband, she takes over as head of his vast business empire. She eventuallyreturns to Mirfield as the titled Lady Rebecca Deevers, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the world to seek the revenge that she has harboured for decades.
‘Rebecca’s Revenge’ was written over twenty years ago and spans the period between the 1950s and the New Millennium. I initially refrained from having it published because of my ‘children’s author credentials and charity work’. I felt that it would have conflicted too adversely with the image I had taken a decade or more to establish with my audience and young person readership. Now, however as I approach the final years of my life and care less about my public image, besides no longer writing for children (only short stories for adults since 2010), I feel the time to be appropriate to publish this ‘strictly for adults only’ novel alongside the remainder of my work.
It is attainable in e-book format from www.smashwords.com, www.lulu.com and also in Kindle from Amazon. Those of you who prefer the physical hard copy edition, it is now available directly from the publisher, and also from www.lulu.com and Amazon.
William Forde August 9th, 2014.
