| Dear Alison - A True Story: Real Life Version of One Day: 2012 - Bestseller (Vintage: Contemporary) |  | Authors: Alison David-Bird, Mark Thomas
Category: eBooks
In Stock
Sales Rank: 592,535
Format: Kindle eBook
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 139
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B007169818
Publication Date: January 23, 2012
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Product Description
‘Dear Alison’ is a totally true story that recounts an overwhelming, life-threatening experience shared by journalists Alison David and Mark Thomas over a two year period between winter 2008 and summer 2010.
Set against the broad background of their enduring on-off love affair which has spanned more than 30 years, it is related via 150 authentic, sequential, candid and personal emails. With Alison living in Martha’s Vineyard, Massechusetts, USA, and Mark in a sleepy Spanish village on the Mediterranean coast, ‘Dear Alison’ bears striking similarities to the classic novel ‘84 Charing Cross Road’ and the contemporary bestselling fiction ‘One Day’.
Without a single face-to-face meeting or any verbal communication whatsoever, they struggle exclusively on-line, across time-zones, to help each other survive the most dangerous emotional and critical economic challenges of their lives.
Written in ‘real time’ as intensely personal correspondence - with telling pauses as they lose touch, then come together again - Alison and Mark initially jest with each other, catching up on the latest seven year gap in their relationship; a cycle which has never missed a beat since they first met as young journalists in the depressed coal mining valleys of strike-torn South Wales in the 1970s.
At first an innocent email chat, reflecting on how life has changed - from the days of hot metal to new technology, from pre-Margaret Thatcher to post-Barack Obama and the worldwide financial crisis - this true story rapidly shifts pace, emotional depth and spiritual intensity as Mark’s world falls apart in a broken relationship with the woman he thought was forever, and Alison loses her father - her mentor and hero RAF fighter pilot.
The theme of Alison’s and Mark’s emails ranges from the historical fun and excitement of two young reporters’ shared experiences in the prime of their lives; through to love, loss, depression, loneliness and alcohol. And, finally, how a transatlantic, cyber-friendship between these two soulmates is able truly to avert self-destruction.
And, as their story unfolds, it becomes clear that, more than 30 years after they met, Mark’s strength and confidence as the senior journalist to Alison’s ‘cub reporter’ is turned completely on its head, as Alison, now a hypnotherapist, is able to lead him, from 3,000 miles away, to take a leap into the unknown world of spiritual awareness, synchronicity, survival, and emotional recovery as a better person.
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