The Winding Road

THE WINDING ROAD
A Novel by Bill Clarke
Sometimes survival is only the beginning.
At forty, Bernard had built a career on numbers, deals, and persuasion. Then a stroke took the ease out of everything: his body, his words, his place in the world he thought he understood.
His wife, Monica, stands beside the man she married and the stranger he has become, wondering what to do next. Bernard, meanwhile, does the slow, unglamorous work of rebuilding his life, one small victory at a time. New people come into his world, each fighting a battle of their own, and Bernard learns that recovery is about more than getting back what he lost. It’s about becoming someone he never expected to be.
The Winding Road is a moving novel about love, loss, and the quiet courage of starting over. Rooted in the author’s own experience of stroke recovery, it’s for anyone who has lost the life they planned and had to decide what comes next.