Looking Forward, Looking Back

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Looking forward, Looking Back by Anne-Marie Langenegger

Catherine is happy as the successful manager of a thriving business. Her boss allows her free rein, and she supervises a large staff. Her career path is set. She is close to her family, dates when she wants to, and she only looks ahead.

She meets a young doctor who seems to have similar goals in life: work, train, and put off more personal ties until success and security are achieved.

When Catherine runs into friends she hasn’t seen in nine years, she realizes that while she had gone on to college and had a job, they have remained where she left them. They are content with their roles as wives and mothers. One even suggests that she feels sorry for Catherine and her “empty life”.

After a casual date goes traumatically wrong, Catherine seeks the comfort and protection of her family, finding strength and courage in herself as she draws on their love for her, even as the consequences escalate.

Meanwhile, her connection with the young doctor deepens as he leans on her, reaching out through the phone line for words of comfort after the stresses and demands of his shifts in a busy Emergency department.

Ms. Langenegger tells us, “I wanted to explore the changing roles of women in the workplace and in the home. It had to be a story that brings to life the challenges and the difficult choices that must be made, and that ultimately make it all worth while.

ISBN: 978-1-77257-385-5 (PB)
ISBN: 978-1-77257-386-2 (eBook) – To be released at a later date

 

 

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Weight 0.370 kg
Dimensions 23 × 15.5 × 1.5 cm

1 review for Looking Forward, Looking Back

  1. Julie Hartwick –

    Review submitted to Burnstown Publishing House from customer J. Friedli

    Anne-Marie Langenegger is about to draw her main character, Catherine, in her lines slowly but steady. It forms a young, self-determined women. Beautiful and independent, about thirty years old. Living in the seventies, it’s not a comfortable age to be unmarried for sure but the image of a woman is about to change these days – this is what you see in the interaction around her. But this book isn’t about that. As a reader I saw a very focused woman with lots of routines which seemed to underline her ability to organize and stay put. Within the pages you will be shown that these routines are more likely why she was as organized and stable, but even more it shows you a little window in her past and her way out of it. This windows show up more and more often until a big incident throws Catherine back in time while simultaneously her future seems to open up.

    I like the ease to read Langenegger’s books – as well as the thrown-in lines of Catherine’s thoughts in between. You get to see her hopes, dreams and fears directly. The reader follows Catherine everywhere she is going within four months. The story evolves itself, first slowly and seems to run later in the book as Catherine begins to lose control. Until she decides that change could be the solution to find, what she was desiring for. An absolute realistic story – no embellishments and no dramatized scenes. The reader gets to have his/her own thoughts about them and just follows Catherine steps, one at a time.

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