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Frankie Gosling
Nolwen Jones
KEY SELLING POINTS
A fictionalised biography which successfully crosses over two genres, memoir and women’s fiction.
A very relatable story about serving in the WRAF, coping with life while struggling with various medical
conditions, and suffering bereavement.
Delightfultoreadas it minimisesgravityandsadnesswithcomicalelementswhichlightenthestory
throughout.
Nolwengrows up in a poor familyina remote partof West Wales. Herstory is of escapingparentaldirection
andjoiningthe WRAF attheage of 17. Hereshe is forced to respondtothe demands of strictdisciplinarians,
despite her emotional state, visual impairment, and Directional Dyslexia. Here Nolwen adapts her character
with pre-meditated positive and negative personality changes and is spurred along by wrongly motivated
devious strategies.
Armed with her personality changes but yet another medical condition, where she experiences episodes of
memoryloss, she is forcedintoasecondcareer.Herethetideturns.Acting asthepresenterforherC.E.O.who
isafflictedbyaspeechimpediment, Nolwenre-discoversamusicaltalentwhichhaslaindormantsinceher
childhood. She falls in love, but her happiness is ripped apart. Although heart-breaking, humorous elements
continue to lighten her story with intriguing developments.
DiagnosedwithaconditionwhichaffectsNolwen’smindduringhertwilightyears,theauthorhascausetotake
us back in timeandrevisittheevents of herlife. Linksareformulated betweenherlatestemotionalstateand
strange actions, with events of her youth and the psychological wounds which shaped her character.
Nolwen Jones wasborn in asmallseasidetown in West Wales. She left home tojointhe WRAFandservedin
themilitary for23 years aswell as marrying anairman.Shethenmoved on toworking inlargecorporate
companiesbutnow,inretirement,shefinallyhasthetimetowritebooks forpureenjoymentandsomething
whichcomesfromtheheart.ShelivesinGloucestershire,butpartof herheartwillalwaysremaininProvence.
Publication Date: 28th November 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781836280743
Thema subject category: FC – Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 384 pp Portrait Author location: Gloucestershire
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