NEW RELEASE
The Heart Whisperer - Ella Griffin (2013)
Claire is turning 33 - the age her mother was when she died - and realises she hasn't really achieved much. She vows to spend the next year sorting out the mess of her life, being more like her mum, who was a doctor with a husband and two children. Claire is an actress who has been relegated to playing extra parts, she drives a clapped-out car and lives downstairs from her friend Ray, who was once in a well-known band but now writes jingles. Claire's love life isn't faring much better and she isn't close to her brother Nick, a marriage counsellor who appears on TV and radio, or her father, who dropped out of circulation when his wife died. Claire had always blamed herself for her mother's death and as the story evolves we find out why. This is a touching story as Claire realises her life isn't as big a mess as she thought - and her mother's wasn't so perfect.
The Heart Whisperer, by Ella Griffin, is about a woman who sets herself a deadline to turn her life around. The synopsis says: "On her 33rd birthday, Claire Dillon decides that it's finally time to grow up. She will give herself 12 months to try to sort out her life. Her mother was 33 when she drowned. The accident happened on Claire's seventh birthday and deep down, Claire feels it was her fault. Her Mum had everything to live for but Claire's life is a mess... All her relationships have just fizzled out over the years. Her acting career is going nowhere and 33, in actress years, is somewhere between 45 and extinct. Nothing in her life works. Her locks stick, her pipes howl, her computer has no letter 'p'. Her beloved car, Mossy, which used to belong to her mother, only has one wiper and no reverse gear. If it weren't for the kindness of her oldest and best friend, the gorgeous, charming, and once-very-famous Ray Devine, she wouldn't even have a place to live. So she gives herself a year to turn her life around..." The Heart Whisperer is out in January.