I am very happy today to announce the official book launch of Time To Let Go, a great drama novel by the talented (and friend) Christoph Fischer.
Chris is basically an historical author (I LOVED his The Luck of the Weissensteiners) and with this book he demonstrates to be comfortable also while writing other genres.
Time to Let Go is a contemporary family drama set in Britain.
Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England. There she finds that neither can she run away from her problems, nor does her family provide the easy getaway place that she has hoped for. Her mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and, while being confronted with the consequences of her issues at work, she and her entire family are forced to reassess their lives.
The book takes a close look at family dynamics and at human nature in a time of a crisis. Their challenges, individual and shared, take the Korhonens on a journey of self-discovery and redemption.
I am always very keen on delicate matters as disability and bad diseases like the Alzheimer. My biggest fear, when dealing with these kind of diseases, is the people can’t take them and therefore don’t have the strength to face them, leaving their friends and family alone to fight. Time to Let Go somehow reflects this somehow and also addresses my fear.
Chris agreed also to make me publish a little excerpt to celebrate his book launch.
Here it is:
“He heard Biddy stir on the sofa and his thoughts returned to the here and now. Biddy was all love and happiness when he went in to the living room to wake her with a cup of tea.
“Oh, you are so nice. Thank you, thank you so much. I love hot tea,” she said and she snuggled up to her husband. These moments of closeness had become rare between the couple and he cherished them. Sometimes he felt he had lost his wife for good with the disappearance of her memory, but then she was suddenly back for brief moments like this. They sat together on the sofa for a while without saying anything. Biddy took sips from her tea and Walter for a moment could live the dream that she was with him, as if she remembered exactly who he was and why he was here. Biddy leaned on him and he could choose to believe that it was a sign of their unbroken connection to each other. Dead brain cells, grey matter, synapses and shortage of chemicals – all the medical explanations did not matter. This moment did: him and his wife, Walter and Biddy Korhonen, and their unity on the sofa.
“You will make someone a good husband.” Biddy broke the silence all of a sudden, shattering the happy illusion, but she smiled at him with the utmost care and affection.
“Yes, I think one day I will!” he said smiling back, accepting that the brief, heavenly visit to the past was over and the new reality had returned.
“Now, let’s get you dressed and go outside for a walk. How about that my sweetheart?” he asked.”
YOU CAN BUY ‘TIME TO LET GO’ HERE:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
This is Goodreads’ Time To Let Go page if you want to leave a rating/review also here.
ABOUT CHRIS FISCHER:
Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother. Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous sense of belonging and home in Bavaria. He moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. After a few years he moved on to the UK where he is still resident today. ‘The Luck of The Weissensteiners’ was published in November 2012; ‘Sebastian’ in May 2013; ‘The Black Eagle Inn’ in October 2013.
He has written several other novels which are in the later stages of editing and finalisation.
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