Two dogs and a suitcase: Clueless in Charente
Sep 2014 · Rukia Publishing
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The title says it all: what we have and where we are. This book, the sequel to Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, follows our French exploits as we endeavour to rebuild our lives in another new country, after spending four and half years in Australia. Our goal, or hope for the immediate future, is to focus positively on the present, so that we can start a new, optimistic future back in Europe. Our main aim is to be nearer to the children, leaving the dark clouds of the challenges we faced in Australia as a distant memory. Journey with us as we arrive in rural South West France; enjoy my reflections, thoughts, and observations about my family, our new surroundings, and our lifestyle. Follow the journey of my writing career and how we start our renovation project while managing our convoluted family life. Once again, we will laugh, cry, and enjoy life to the fullest with a generous helping of positive spin thrown in for good measure.
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Karen Lifshay
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July 31, 2015
This is a delightful account of the author's experiences of moving to France and renovating a house while living in it. Her writing is accessible and her personality is so free and accepting. We see her foibles and love her for them. She goes beyond surviving to thriving even though circumstances are not always to her advantage and everything does not fall into place. She faces with gusto that which many of us would not survive.
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Sujir Pavithra Nayak
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September 22, 2015
After "Glass Half Full" this sequel makes any reader like me who is also an aspiring writer hope and renewed passion to move ahead in life. Thank you Sarah you made me journeys filled with hope.
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Rebecca Pearson
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August 10, 2015
but reading this helped me image I was there. The cottage, the garden and neighbors . . the struggles of living with what you have. Good read!
About the author
Author Sarah Jane Butfield was born in Ipswich, and raised in rural Suffolk, England. Sarah Jane, a wife, mother, nurse and now a published author. Married three times with four children and three step children she is the modern day mother to her 'Brady bunch' but she loves every minute of their convoluted lives.
Fulfilling her childhood dream and becoming a nurse, was just the start of her amazing journey. Her nursing and teaching qualifications would take her around the world, enabling her to work in all fields of nursing, education and management. However, after 27 years as a nurse Sarah Jane has now achieved another long held ambition,that of becoming a published author of two travel memoirs.
Glass Half Full: Our Australian adventure was her debut travel memoir, but she is also a published freelance magazine journalist and blogger, in the healthcare and writing arenas. The sequel, Two dogs and a suitcase: Clueless in Charente, was published in June 2014.
In addition to her travel memoirs she is currently working on a series of self-help books for people facing challenging life events and tough family situations. The books are based on her real life experience of divorce, bereavement, child custody issues, migration, parenting, etc.
Read Sarah Jane's blog at:
http://sarahjanebutfield-glass-half-full.blogspot.co.uk/
Support and networking for authors provided by Sarah Jane:
http://www.rukiapublishing.com/
Follow Sarah Jane on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/SarahJanewrites
Stop by and say hello to Sarah Jane here: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSarahJaneButfield
https://www.facebook.com/Twodogsandasuitcase
Fulfilling her childhood dream and becoming a nurse, was just the start of her amazing journey. Her nursing and teaching qualifications would take her around the world, enabling her to work in all fields of nursing, education and management. However, after 27 years as a nurse Sarah Jane has now achieved another long held ambition,that of becoming a published author of two travel memoirs.
Glass Half Full: Our Australian adventure was her debut travel memoir, but she is also a published freelance magazine journalist and blogger, in the healthcare and writing arenas. The sequel, Two dogs and a suitcase: Clueless in Charente, was published in June 2014.
In addition to her travel memoirs she is currently working on a series of self-help books for people facing challenging life events and tough family situations. The books are based on her real life experience of divorce, bereavement, child custody issues, migration, parenting, etc.
Read Sarah Jane's blog at:
http://sarahjanebutfield-
Support and networking for authors provided by Sarah Jane:
http://www.rukiapublishing.
Follow Sarah Jane on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/
Stop by and say hello to Sarah Jane here: https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
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