Salvation Creek
An Unexpected Life
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Susan Duncan's bestselling memoir about starting again and risking everything to find the only thing you need.
At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster.
But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. In shock, she zips on her work face and soldiers on - until one morning eighteen months later when she simply can't get out of bed.
Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, Salvation Creek is the story of a woman who found the courage not only to walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life - and love - in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world.
From the terrifying first step of quitting the job that had always anchored her to abandoning herself to a passionate affair that she knows will break her heart, Duncan never flinches from the truth or loses her wicked sense of humour. Even when she finds a paradise on earth only to discover that it may be too late. It's been said that the greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.
Customer Reviews
Salvation Creek
I have just spent two delicious days with Susan Duncan as my new best friend. Reading Salvation Creek while recovering from surgery. This book has given me more insight to myself in two days than I have had in five years. The easy flow of writing engulfs your spirit, lifting you throughout the highs and sustaining you through the lows of a life in a part of Australia we don't all get to share daily. I have laughed out loud, cried with sorrow and joy. I have enjoyed this vivid, descriptive, well written story from the first paragraph to the last page. Thank you Susan for sharing your journey, passing on lessons I hope I don't have to learn the hard way. I hope everyone who picks up this book enjoys it as much as I have. Don't expect to get anything done, you won't want to put it down till you have finished reading the very last word. Even then you won't want to close it.