The Beginning of Everything By Jackie Fraser
Paperback published by Simon and Schuster 28th September 2023
ISBN 9781398518971
Jess is running away, leaving all she knows and everyone she loves behind her, with just a few treasures belonging in her rucksack. She’s escaping the pain and trauma of a bad relationship with a bad man, gone very badly wrong. Gethin’s kindness and care takes her breath away. They become friends. But with so much hurt in her past, can Jess learn to love and live again?
MY REVIEW
If you are looking for that book to make you sit up straight, take notice of, gasp, want everything for Jess to turn out right for the best, this is your next read! Could this be the moment? This is the story of Jess and Gethin, whose paths cross in the most unexpected way.
Part of page 3:
I need to get a job, which isn’t easy when you don’t have an address. But I need a job in order to pay for an address. If I don’t find something soon, I’ll have to spend my fairly meagre savings and I’d rather not have to. Ideally, I’ll find something casual where they’re not too fussed about the details. There used to be lots of jobs like that, but less so these days. I try not to worry, because let’s face it, my life now is loads better than my life a month ago, however cold I might be.
About author Jackie Fraser
Jackie Fraser is the author of The Bookshop of Second Chances and The Beginning of Everything.
She lives in Hampshire with her partner, and when she’s not reading, writing or editing (her day job) you might find her climbing over gates to look at stone circles, taking photographs of rusty things, or poking about in antique shops. https://www.instagram.com/muninnherself
