ASIN: B00IAQPHPO
Publisher: Calartha Press
Pages: 224
Why does Magdala leave her young children and a life of luxury? What makes a woman who has it all, abandon her family?It begins when Magdala launches herself into the brave new world of the 1980s:‘I wanted the dream we’d been promised by our wonderful prime minister... She was only a grocer’s daughter. If she could do it, so could I. It was the new brash and confident eighties, money was it and I would be where it was.’ But she finds herself in over her head. Everyone is out for themselves except maybe Alex, the company accountant who seems to care. As her dreams in the fast-moving treacherous world of advertising turn to nightmare, Alex offers her marriage, a house, holidays, cars, and children...everything money can buy...but in return she must relinquish her self. He knows only possession, and she feels trapped in her gilded cage. Close to breakdown, Magdala leaves. She tries to ...
