“Perfection Comes at a Price” by Ulla Beattie is published
A story of love & ambition, providence and redemption.
- (1888PressRelease) November 04, 2019 - ISBN #978-1702487344
About the Book:
Eric has a miserable childhood in a violent, drunken family in a tough London housing estate. He compensates by looking for perfection. For him, this means worldly success in a diplomatic career as far away from his childhood as possible. His single-minded ambition comes at a price. It makes him leave his childhood sweetheart Katie behind, since he knows that she can’t keep up with him. Their ways part. Eric marries an upper-class woman and becomes an Ambassador. However, Katie and he never quite lose touch. After his wife’s death Eric and Katie come together again. There is action and pace, fun and sadness, a huge variety of life experiences and a sense of providence and redemption.
Excerpt from the book:
“Katie cried herself to sleep. The next morning she woke up with a heavy head and a terrible anguish. The worst had happened to her. Eric did not want her. He was not going to marry her. She felt as if the floor had fallen from under her feet. She could not fathom it. He was not going to marry her because it would make her unhappy. That just wasn’t true. She might not have understood everything, but as she knew she made him happy, of course happiness would have followed in a marriage. She would not have demanded anything; she was content for him to rule the roost. He knew better anyhow.
There had to be some hidden reason for him not to want to marry her. She knew and felt that he loved her. Was it perhaps something connected to those deep, dark moods of which she had the odd glimpse on the occasions when he had got drunk in her company? The depth of those dark feelings had frightened her. She realised that she knew only patches of his character and what drove him on.
To the world he was jolly and superficial. What had he wanted? Now that she thought about it, Katie remembered how at the beginning he had tried to interest her in history, art and music, but seeing that she did not have the same enthusiasm, he had given up on that. He had tried to teach her card games, but she had no card sense, and it had had to be given up.”
About the Author:
Ulla Marita Beattie was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1945, which explains why many of her stories have a Nordic flavour. She has travelled widely and has lived in Austria, Russia, Cyprus, Belgium and Switzerland.Since 1997 she has been based in London, with frequent visits to France. She is married and has two daughters, now grown up. She has had a lifelong interest in children's stories, particularly those read to her own and other people's children.
You can read more about Ulla and her books at www.ullabeattie.co.uk
“Perfection Comes at a Price” is available to purchase in paperback from Amazon UK at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfection-Comes-Price-Ulla-Beattie/dp/1702487342
This important book can also be downloaded in e-book format at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfection-Comes-Price-Ulla-Beattie-ebook/dp/B07ZMHYVLP
Press/Media Contact Details:
Darin Jewell (Ulla Beattie’s literary agent)
Tel. 0208 292 5163
E-mail: darin ( @ ) theinspiragroup dot com
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