Here's a wonderful book to add to your summer reading list! It's called Following Evan by Elida May. You can read an excerpt and find out all about it below!
built for herself. This is what her world had shrunk down to.
much as she could cope with.
Her first heavy step took her to the kettle.
Why do kettles have to be so bloody loud?
freckle-faced boy with blonde hair peered at her from behind it.
He thrust a small white envelope towards her.
"It came with the order," he explained.
"What order?" Laura asked, tearing open the envelope.
"Pay the boy and start decorating!" read the note inside.
I need this in my life? What is there for me to celebrate?
and she let it go straight to answer machine.
tomorrow anyway to take you out. I don't want any excuses.
didn't feel that there was any way back for her.
were all that was left for her.
occurrence wasn't going to happen again.
swollen and her tears and dribbles were dry on the pillow.
stomach was too empty for her to vomit.
things but not this, and don't imagine I will leave you like this.
remember. She had even been looking forward to the labour.
wasn't moving and the ordinary events of a tragedy unfolded.
The place she had loved was now suffocating.
event of that awful day was a screw on its lid.
No wonder she had wanted to end it all.
her in such a bad way, following the overdose. "You just cry.
she had and hoped for fled from her wreck of a body.
examined her and made a swift assessment.
"We will have to get you to hospital," she said.
"No bloody way," came Laura's vehement response.
the needle penetrated her vein.
merely sufficient to keep death away.
staying with Laura for weeks.
from her doctor's office to remind her to take her meds.
they formed a fence around her mind.
Elida May was born in Albania in 1972. Growing up in a Communist country, where access to books was severely restricted, helped to nurture her love of the written word, and she avidly read whatever genre she could get hold of, including a lot of European literature. Today Elida lives in London with her son Elidon. Following Evan is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second, Diary of Michael Vica.