Summary: Henry Melken is a widower. His daughter Chandra was just 13 when her mother, Ava, died. That was 16 years ago, and Henry and Chandra are stuck, as Lovelyn Bettison‘s novel “Flying Lessons” opens. Now haunted by the past, they sleepwalk through life – until unexpected relationships shake up their perceptions of reality. Henry’s new friendship with a neighbor blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, and Chandra starts to see possibilities she’s never noticed before. Can it be that grief and hopea are two sides of the same coin? More below the media player. Listen to Lovelyn Bettison Download audio file (lovelynbettison.mp3) Don’t see a player here? Click on this link to listen, or right click and “Save As” to download. The Indie Author Life Flying Lessons is Lovelyn Bettison’s second novel, and she’s working on a third. Months before Sue Grafton’s rant about indie authors, Bettison presciently pre-empted the Grafton remarks on her own blog, as Flying Lessons was just about to be released: Some people imply that self-publishing is taking the easy way out. They think that because you didn’t try to get a New York publisher you must not be that serious about [...] The post Unexpected Relationships Transform Two Lives appeared first on The Bookcast.
