- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Corgi; New edition edition (4 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0552145491
- ISBN-13: 978-0552145497
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 476,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A story of many different kinds of love, played out against a dramatic background of sea and sky.
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On a happy expedition to choose her wedding dress, accompanied by her fiance Miles and her parents, Helen Wilson’s life changed, suddenly and without warning. A devastating car crash left her with only memories to console her. Yet as she came to terms with her loss, she discovered that Miles had kept something from her which made her see him in a very different light. She moved to Flatners, a cottage on Stormy Point overlooking the Bristol Channel, and with her new friends - kind, pretty Peggy and her small daughter Rosie - living next door, Helen settled into an existence she could never previously have imagined. She became caught up in the problems of Dorry, a young woman whose client she had been, and while encouraging Peggy’s developing relationship with Joshua, a social worker, Helen became aware of her own complex feelings towards Harry Vallender, the previous owner of Flatners. Harry had a very special reason for wanting - and needing - to know Helen. In the aftermath of death, tragedy, and lives turned upside down, love tentatively began to flower...
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I read this book on holiday last year, without expecting anything special, and was therefore shocked that it quickly became one of my favourite books! I have since read it many times, and it never bores me. This book describe the troubles a relatively young lady faces as she was involved in a tragic accident which killed her parents and fiance, and left her paralysed from the waste down. This story is partly about adjusting to her new, wheel-chair bound life, but it also is partly a story of love, albeit unexpected love. Without giving to much away, all I can say is that I highly recommend it even if you have never read any other of Susan Sallis's books (which I hadn't!).
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This book was instantly readable for me. I found it sad and yet uplifting and it highlighted problems of physical and mental nature.
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Unless you are completely lacking in sensitivity, "choices" is not a comfortable read. It begins as the heroine, Helen Wilson, is lying in a hospital bed following a horrific road traffic accident which wrecked the lives of everyone involved, those who survived as well as those who didn't.
Helen went in a few seconds from having a loving family and the expectations of a bright future full of love, to being on her own, paralysed from the waist down, and with nothing but memories.
As if her injuries and the loss of the people she loved were not enough, Helen learns some further unexpected things about her loved ones, though ironically out of this she makes a new friend.
Trying to rebuild her life, Helen moves to a cottage overlooking the Bristol Channel, makes more new friends, and submits to the ministrations of various doctors, both those who are helping her come to terms with her body without the use of her legs, and those who are exploring for any hope that she might one day walk again.
And through another extreme irony, she begins to discover feelings for someone who is the very last person she would have expected to care for: feelings which are embarrassing and difficult for both of them but which have the potential to rebuild emotions Helen thought had died ...
The novel goes into a significant amount of detail, some of it quite intimate, about the consequences of being paralysed from the waist down and some of the ways people can try to deal with those consequences. A reader who is highly sensitive or squeamish might find some passages of this book embarassing or difficult.
Nevertheless, "choices" is a well-written and thoughtful book which many readers will enjoy.
Helen went in a few seconds from having a loving family and the expectations of a bright future full of love, to being on her own, paralysed from the waist down, and with nothing but memories.
As if her injuries and the loss of the people she loved were not enough, Helen learns some further unexpected things about her loved ones, though ironically out of this she makes a new friend.
Trying to rebuild her life, Helen moves to a cottage overlooking the Bristol Channel, makes more new friends, and submits to the ministrations of various doctors, both those who are helping her come to terms with her body without the use of her legs, and those who are exploring for any hope that she might one day walk again.
And through another extreme irony, she begins to discover feelings for someone who is the very last person she would have expected to care for: feelings which are embarrassing and difficult for both of them but which have the potential to rebuild emotions Helen thought had died ...
The novel goes into a significant amount of detail, some of it quite intimate, about the consequences of being paralysed from the waist down and some of the ways people can try to deal with those consequences. A reader who is highly sensitive or squeamish might find some passages of this book embarassing or difficult.
Nevertheless, "choices" is a well-written and thoughtful book which many readers will enjoy.
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