A Life of Their Own is a moving and sensitive novel following a young mother who flees domestic abuse to start a new life with her two children. It is an exploration of the meaning of family, love, power and control. When Kate and her children step onto a bus early one Tuesday morning, she knows this is their only chance: their only chance at freedom and at a life of their own. But, can she ensure their safety? Can she ensure they will never be found? This is a feeling that haunts Kate as she and her children begin a new life far from New York, far from their troubled past. But, little did she know that their new life would bring her closer to a different past, a life she had long given up, making her already fragile world more complicated than she could have ever imagined.
Author
Pauline’s necessity to write has emerged alongside a profound passion to engage and inspire our younger generations to become great readers. Her years of experience in working with and assessing children from Primaries one to seven, who needed extra-curricular support, then creating and delivering individual learning plans to meet their specific needs, has only fuelled her passion and has influenced both the writing and the production processes of her picture books. It took Pauline just over two decades to go from plot scribbler to published author because she allowed life to take her down a more secure path. A path she knew she would succeed in, a path that was acceptable in the world she had grown up in. But, in her mid-forties, Pauline submitted her first manuscript and has not looked back. Pauline also enjoys writing fiction for adults and, as with her children’s writing, wants to help and inspire, which is why her books tackle serious subjects. It is essential that emotions and reactions are true to their topics while the landscape and settings are truly authentic. Pauline writes Contemporary Romance with a hint of suspense, relatable characters, and happy endings.
