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Life Is A Foreign Language

By: Rayne E. Golay

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When she surprises her husband making love to another woman in the home NINA BROCHARD has shared with him for thirty-seven years, she has reached her limit. After years of struggling with his infidelities, this final betrayal prompts her to leave her native France and everything familiar and dear. She settles in Southwest Florida where she owns a house and starts a long and grueling journey toward self-discovery and growth to realize her full potential as a woman. But more than anything she wants to heal and find peace. At 59 she is an experienced psychologist, secure in her professional environment, while on the other hand she struggles with her badly damaged self-image as a woman. Nina's adult, headstrong daughter LILLIAN rejects the truth that her father has been a pathological womanizer and persists in believing that Nina has fabricated the story. Lillian threatens to refuse Nina contact with Morgan and Natalie, her twin granddaughters. Facing this menace Nina is prepared to go to any length to prevent such a rift. Pediatrician MICHAEL HAMILTON, 61, has dealt with his shattered past. Michael is head of a thriving walk-in clinic, a skilled gardener and a passionate rose grower¥every woman's dream of the ideal man. He is divorced, a father and grandfather. Through Michael's positive influence Nina learns to laugh again. As two adults who both have been through loss and suffering, Nina and Michael progress with slow steps in their togetherness as fellow travelers. With Michael she learns to trust and to enjoy life. Hope is born as Michael offers Nina a part-time job as counselor in his clinic. She is happy to accept, elated that she is wanted, that she can still be useful. Michael is considerate of Nina's feelings. Patiently he stands by Nina's side, helps her face the pains of growing. He coaxes and cajoles. Little by little Nina starts unlocking doors to her agonizing past of abuse.

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The Wooden Chair

By: Rayne E. Golay

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The Wooden Chair

By: Rayne E. Golay

Winner of the Royal Palm Award As a child, Leini stands ready to do anything to win her mother Mira's love. This effort costs her the sight in one eye and as a result, causes her to endure bullying from kids her own age. As a teenager, with her Grandpa's help, she undergoes one more surgery to straighten her eye, but the psychological scar of the events of her childhood remain. Leini struggles to break free of Mira's tyranny by leaving her native Helsinki to study psychology at Geneva University. A few years later, married, herself about to become a mother, she is determined with her own children not to repeat Mira's behavior. With the help of a psychiatrist, she labors through the pains of past hurts to become a nurturing and loving mother and wife, as well as a successful professional, as she grows from victim to victor over adversity. Can her efforts lead her to the one thing she needs to discover the most - the ability to forgive her mother? PRAISE FOR THE WOODEN CHAIR: The Wooden Chair is a beautifully written period piece. When I began reading, I didn't stop until I turned the last page. Ms. Golay's descriptions are so powerful, the characters so true to life, they're unforgettable. Leini's journey from an emotionally abused child to a self-confident woman should be read by all who've suffered any form of abuse and persevered. Quite the most powerful novel I've read in years." --Suzanne Barr, Author of Fatal Kiss The Wooden Chair took hold of me in the first paragraphs and never let go. I kept expecting-and wanting-someone to rescue Leini from her wildly unpredictable mother who told Leini she wasn't wanted. Leini's disappointments and longings as she faced serious issues for such a young girl kept me engrossed. I wept at Rayne Golay's vivid descriptions of Leini coping in an unfair world, and I rejoiced at her remarkable quest to change, at her acceptance as she grew into adulthood. Rayne's high quality writing in The Wooden Chair makes it an emotionally charged read, a compelling story of one woman's valiant struggle to grow away from past hurts. A triumphant story --Elizabeth (Bettie) Wailes, Author and Editor

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1611875617

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The Wooden Chair

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Life Is A Foreign Language

Life Is A Foreign Language

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