Candidly Carol
From her 1940s childhood through to the present time, author Carol Creasey reflects on a life which has thrown some truly tough moments her way, but where she overcomes these problems and is always ready to share her enjoyment of family and living.
Born in Coney Hall, Kent, Carol admits to being very outward and loud in her youth, and remembers those days of the 1950s when rock’n’roll and boyfriends were the backdrop to her coming of age.
Marrying in her late teens, it was following the birth of her third child that she faced a major trauma. She writes very frankly about learning that her son had autism and coming to terms with this. Nevertheless, this situation finally led to the end of her first marriage.
Bravely leaving her husband and moving into a flat above a shop that she ran herself, she met John, with whom she had her fourth child.
Carol describes how she often had to deal with the conflicting disapproval of others against her life choices and partners. John was also married with children, and in the 1960s and 70s there was still considerable condemnation of couples living together in this way. However, they thrived and had a good family life together.
When faced with two major tragedies within her family, it is Carol’s care for others and a consistently indomitable spirit that pull her through the heartache and on to a new inspiring chapter in her life.
Often finding solace in writing, she has become well-established as an author, so it is apt that she now offers this spellbinding account of her own life to readers.
ISBN: 9781852001933
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: Hardback
32 Colour & B&W photos
Length: 322pp
About the author:
Carol M. Creasey
Kent born author Carol M. Creasey wrote her first book about her autistic son in 1993 titled My Life is Worth Living! With four children to cope with, that book brilliantly reflects her struggles balancing a full family life and still giving her son the extra care he needed. Many years later, in her novel The Power of Love, Carol drew from these same experiences to write about the life of a young 1960s mother coping with an autistic son.
As well as looking after her family, Carol has had a career as a manager in various china and glass merchandising establishments and also owned her own shop. Writing has always remained an important part in Carol’s life, and since the original publication of My Life is Worth Living! she has published six novels, the latest of these being One Moment of Madness, and she has recently been the recipient of two Reader’s Choice Awards.
