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DerynV

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I've always been an avid reader of anything that comes my way - being a librarian's daughter will do that - and I've been telling stories since I could talk.
My favourite books are those I return to again and again, but I enjoy Marian Keyes, R J Ellory, Cathy Kelly, and Kate Mosse as well. So, as I said, pretty much anything that comes my way, really.
I grew up in South Africa in the dying days of apartheid and the birth pains of the Rainbow Nation, although I currently live in England, ride a motorbike whenever it's not actively raining and work in broadcasting.
My book, 'Coming Undone,' tells the stories of the people who lived through the history I did - when a whole nation deliberately stripped away and re-defined its identity.

favourite books

Secret History - Donna Tartt
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg
Daddy - Loup Durand

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Coming Undone

Deryn Verner

Coming Undone is what would happen if Bridget Jones drank neat whisky, not Chardonnay; and toasted good times over good behaviour.


How many great love stories never get started because everyone's too scared to make the first move? How much are we the sum of all our fears, and why do we run so far from them, that we come full circle to face them or fall?

Coming Undone is a modern love story, searching for romance and true love in a world that's unsure whether it believes in either.

Jacqueline Carlisle is a young adult in the interim South Africa - a perpetual adolescent, if you ask her parents. She’s afraid of being alone, afraid of getting hurt, of feeling anything, and so she's skimming over her life, avoiding thinking or feeling, until she meets the love who challenges her to face her fears and find out who she really is; in a place and at a time when a whole nation is undergoing the same process of stripping away and re-defining its identity. Will Jac stop running long enough to work out she can have what she wants, if she could only dare to admit wanting it?

 

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I wrote 786 days ago

Thank you. I promise to re-think the cover completely. view book

I wrote 792 days ago

Have added some more - glad you're enjoying it view book

I wrote 820 days ago

Okay, it was the shelve-for-comment/ cold out there message that got me - I work on the embankment. But having started to read the book, defintiely backed. view book

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