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Lost. . . . . Empty. . . . . Abandoned. . . . . Alone. . . . . Unloved. . . . How could a man have made her feel like this? Not just any man either. Her husband. The one she had loved and looked after and had three children with. . . . . her world. He had just left her behind, left his children behind, left his old life behind. He hadn't looked back either. How could he? Marcus had walked out on Stephanie to be with her. . . . that woman, Sue. She had him now and Stephanie hated that. He now had his new love, his new friends, his new flat, his new life and his freedom. What did Stephanie have now? Her children - but being a single mum was so hard . . . and so lonely. Her new house - but that meant she had no friends around her. . . . they had moved away from everyone. Her new life - she didn't want a new life without Marcus. . . . she just wanted her safe, secure life back. Didn't she? She needed to keep hold of normality somehow, she needed to understand her feelings and the thoughts that swam through her head constantly. She needed to keep hold of her sanity. It was all so difficult to do though. The web of deceit that Marcus was spinning seemed to consume her in so many ways. The frustration was intense and the confusion was endless. But time would help. Time would heal too, wouldn't it? Each day, each week, each month, Stephanie clung to her emotional rollercoaster until her knuckles turned white, detailing every steep climb, every bump and every loop in her diary. One break up, one broken heart, one woman who was unsure she would recover, one diary, one year. . . . . would time really make a difference?

Beverley White's writing began when her husband left her for another woman. She became a single mother of three children in a new area with loneliness and solitude consuming her life. Not only did she have to learn how to juggle her teaching career, her children and settling into a new home, but she also had to learn about being single again, socializing again and even dating again. She began to write a diary so she could talk to herself openly about her feelings and try to understand them and also the progress she was making. It showed her fight for her children to see their father, fight to understand her own feelings towards her husband and other people in her life and also fight to keep her sanity. She used it to help her build a new life for herself and also to find herself once more. Although this started out as a tool to aid her own recovery, it soon became more. Not only did this diary become the inspiration for One Hell of a Year but it also became an aid for the new friends she made who were experiencing the same pain, heartache and mixed up emotions. They came to realize that what they were thinking and feeling were not unusual or wrong in any way but perfectly normal. Most importantly though, they came to realize that they were not alone. Through One Hell of a Year, Beverley hopes to reach out to many others who are unfortunate enough to be experiencing the same sadness and show them that although these times are hard, life does get better and they will become stronger and happier. She also hopes they see that eventually the smiles and laughter they thought were lost forever, will one day return.