A Special Relationship
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly finds herself married, pregnant and living in London.
Married life in a foreign place is a far bigger adjustment than Sally and Tony could ever have imagined - and as their lives shift from freedom and adventure to responsibility and hard work, everyday problems soon spiral into nightmares. After the birth of their son, Sally finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of post-natal depression over which she has little control, whilst Tony's life returns to relative normality. Filled with resentment and unable to cope with the cards life has dealt her, Sally is shocked when the man she trusted above all others turns against her. As her world begins to fall down around her, Sally quickly realises she must fight before she loses everything.
In this authentic and compelling novel, Kennedy explores the misunderstandings that can occur when two people speak the same language but miss all the vital signs.
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When American journalist Sally Goodchild, the narrator of Kennedy's fast-paced latest (after Leaving the World), meets British reporter Tony Hobbs on a Red Cross helicopter over Somalia, the attraction is instant. The two reporters escape death at gunpoint, surviving to file their stories and begin a romance that results in Sally's unexpected pregnancy. Taking a leap of faith, the two decide to raise the baby in London, but health problems complicate the pregnancy, and Sally's soon unemployed. With less independence than ever, Tony acting increasingly distant, and the difficult birth of their son, Jack, Sally is struck with severe postpartum depression and enters a psychiatric ward. Soon after she leaves the hospital, however, she discovers that Tony has led a secret life that will have devastating repercussions. Though there's little room for nuance, the narrative has the momentum of a bullet train and makes up for what it lacks in sophistication with hard-charging emotional challenges fraught with tension.
