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Sunday 5 September 2021

Family Reunited

Family Reunited is a new novel from the author of Fireworks to Thailand, J. R. Bonham.

It's a gripping family drama it tells the story of how Jan eventually plucks up the courage to leave her vile and abusive husband, Geoff after their 25 year marriage.

After she leaves Geoff she meets the man who she feels is her soulmate, Mike, who she marries. And with whom she has a happy second marriage.

Unfortunately her adult children, Louise and Steven blame Jane for, as they perceive it, breaking up their 'happy' home.

She's been totally estranged from her children and hasn't ever been able to meet her five grandchildren. 

Sadly, she becomes a widow and Jan's sense of loss is crippling in its intensity following 22 years of a loving, blissful marriage.

Louise, Jan's daughter, then dies which unleashes a tsunami of grief that further destroys the family.

Charlotte, Louise's daughter plunges into grief and takes on the persona of a 'wild child' to mask her sorrow. She is only 15 and when she falls pregnant she is thrown out of the family home.

Jan feels that enough is enough and she steps forward to try to bring her shattered family back together again. But how can she accomplish this? Will they listen to her ideas? acquiesce to her proposals to get everything back on track and to heal the family at long last?

It's published by The Book Guild at £8.99.

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