The Bird and the Rose

By Bonar Ash

Following the sudden death of her infant son Laurie, Rhea, a young writer, grapples with her grief and devastation, helped by Toby, the attractive young curate from the local church who is in love with her.

Rhea is constantly distracted from her self-absorption by Mavis, the demanding, confused old lady next door, and by Alice, a good-looking, unhappily married young woman who is obsessed with Toby and determined to seduce him. But Toby's heart belongs to Rhea. Alice's obsession for Toby leads her to greater and greater excesses which Rhea fears can only end in tragedy. She worries about Alice, and about Mavis whose erratic behaviour begins to put not only herself but others in danger.

Rhea moves through the stages of grief and mourning, her slow recovery helped by a meeting with a stranger who had accosted her when, numb with shock, she was carrying her dead child through the wintery streets. She learns from this stranger a great truth which does much to help her finally to start to live again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C2SM3M4X
• ISBN13: 9798392226443
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"