A Key to Brighton (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
Vendedor de IberLibro desde 12 de octubre de 2005
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Paperback. A house she never planned to keep. A city she meant to leave. A life that refuses to fit neatly inside a sensible plan.At forty-nine, newly divorced and between permanent roles, Nora Whitaker arrives in Brighton with a brass key to the small terraced house left by her late aunt Bea. She has enough money to manage a careful transition, no salary coming in, and a self-imposed deadline: by mid-December, she will decide what to do with the house, her work, and the life that comes next.Nora has spent twenty-five years in operations, turning uncertainty into schedules, budgets, responsibilities, and workable decisions. At Alder Row, she tries to do the same. She checks the bills, protects a reserve, avoids unnecessary spending, and treats Brighton as temporary. Facts are easier than preference.Then a local connection brings her to Marlowe Rooms, an independent venue with practical problems Nora knows how to solve. A small paid diagnosis becomes a twelve-week operations-improvement contract, and the days she meant to leave open begin filling with work, responsibility, and people who know her for what she can do now-not for the marriage that ended or the career she left behind.But usefulness has a cost. As the venue begins to rely on her, Nora must decide how much of herself she is willing to make permanently available. At the same time, a serious London opportunity offers the structure, salary, and professional certainty she understands. Neither path is obviously wrong. That is what makes the choice difficult.Set against everyday Brighton rather than an idealised escape, A Key to Brighton is contemporary women's fiction about starting over after divorce, an inherited home, midlife career reinvention, female friendship, and the boundaries that make a second life sustainable. Nora's challenge is not to abandon responsibility. It is to decide which responsibilities are actually hers-and whether a life can be sensible because she chose it, not because someone else would approve.Emotionally grounded and character-driven, the novel follows small decisions that carry real weight: what to keep, what to sell, what work to accept, when to say no, and how to live with uncertainty without mistaking it for failure.For readers drawn to mature protagonists, coastal settings, post-divorce reinvention, and stories of women rebuilding work and home on their own terms, this is a measured, hopeful story about choosing a life that can be maintained after the dramatic part of leaving is already over.Sometimes the second chance is not an escape. It is the ordinary life you finally decide to make your own. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798170564156
- Título
- A Key to Brighton (Paperback)
- Autor
- Samuel Ashford
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798170564156
A house she never planned to keep. A city she meant to leave. A life that refuses to fit neatly inside a sensible plan.
At forty-nine, newly divorced and between permanent roles, Nora Whitaker arrives in Brighton with a brass key to the small terraced house left by her late aunt Bea. She has enough money to manage a careful transition, no salary coming in, and a self-imposed deadline: by mid-December, she will decide what to do with the house, her work, and the life that comes next.
Nora has spent twenty-five years in operations, turning uncertainty into schedules, budgets, responsibilities, and workable decisions. At Alder Row, she tries to do the same. She checks the bills, protects a reserve, avoids unnecessary spending, and treats Brighton as temporary. Facts are easier than preference.
Then a local connection brings her to Marlowe Rooms, an independent venue with practical problems Nora knows how to solve. A small paid diagnosis becomes a twelve-week operations-improvement contract, and the days she meant to leave open begin filling with work, responsibility, and people who know her for what she can do now—not for the marriage that ended or the career she left behind.
But usefulness has a cost. As the venue begins to rely on her, Nora must decide how much of herself she is willing to make permanently available. At the same time, a serious London opportunity offers the structure, salary, and professional certainty she understands. Neither path is obviously wrong. That is what makes the choice difficult.
Set against everyday Brighton rather than an idealised escape, A Key to Brighton is contemporary women’s fiction about starting over after divorce, an inherited home, midlife career reinvention, female friendship, and the boundaries that make a second life sustainable. Nora’s challenge is not to abandon responsibility. It is to decide which responsibilities are actually hers—and whether a life can be sensible because she chose it, not because someone else would approve.
Emotionally grounded and character-driven, the novel follows small decisions that carry real weight: what to keep, what to sell, what work to accept, when to say no, and how to live with uncertainty without mistaking it for failure.
For readers drawn to mature protagonists, coastal settings, post-divorce reinvention, and stories of women rebuilding work and home on their own terms, this is a measured, hopeful story about choosing a life that can be maintained after the dramatic part of leaving is already over.
Sometimes the second chance is not an escape. It is the ordinary life you finally decide to make your own.
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