The Golden Thread
by Monica Carly
A poignant page turner, The Golden Thread, with its many twists and turns in the plot, covers the life span of two sisters who experience love, loss, sadness, bitterness and separation, but thanks to a chance meeting a reconciliation takes place just in time for happiness to return.
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About The Book
Claudia and Maria grow up as happy playmates and the best of friends. Claudia, the elder by three years, is protective of her sibling, whose fun-loving ways often lead her into trouble. When their mother dies, Maria feels secure in the knowledge that Claudia is there to help and guide her. Both sisters are confident that nothing can shatter their close relationship.
But suddenly the bond between them is blown apart by the arrival on the scene of handsome, Italian businessman, Stefano Volpe. With his continental charm and dazzling smile, he enters their lives with disturbing consequences. In a few short weeks an event of heart-breaking proportions breaks the trust between the sisters, souring Claudia’s outlook throughout her working life, and causing her to sever all ties with Maria for the next forty years.
Each sister treads a path of suffering, and neither will be able to share their burdens with the one person who knows them better than they know themselves and who had always, in the past, brought comfort. The golden thread which binds the sisters together is stretched to breaking point.
But a chance encounter eventually leads to a miracle. Claudia and Maria, now so different from their youthful persona, both bruised by all they have endured, discover unexpected sources of happiness. Reunited at last, they delight in each other’s company and as Claudia provides strength and comfort to her now ailing sister, she learns to live and love again.
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About the author
At 5 years of age Monica Carly wrote her first ‘book’ and she is still writing 82 years later. Her latest publication recalls the six years she spent in Jamaica as an adolescent and the many adventures she and her family experienced in their new life on this tropical island.
In 1958 she graduated from Bristol University with an honours degree in English, French and Latin and a teaching qualification. Whilst raising a family she took a creative writing course and produced several short stories and some children’s stories.
Her varied working life has included secondary school teaching, lecturing in study skills, mastering graphology and offering handwriting interpretations, learning consumer law and explaining to buyers’ their civil rights and, as part of a motoring organization, helping to rescue stranded motorists.
Monica Carly
