Agnes’s Broken Dreams
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March 28th 2023
It has been thirty years since Agnes last visited the country of her birth and upbringing. While it is at the request of her aging, narcissistic mother, she has her own reasons for making the journey to Australia from her home on Mallorca.
Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has cast such a long shadow over her existence that her ability to grasp at life fully, to appreciate her own sense of self-worth, to attain any semblance of happiness, to trust without reservation, has been damaged. Those whom she chooses, and who choose her, seem to want only to exploit her.
Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy, Agnes can now return to re-experience the places that featured in her youth in the hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories let out into the light. Upon reaching middle age, she is determined to grapple with - and heal - the ills that have beset her.
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Review from Kirstin Brown
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Gosh, it's such a good book. Congratulations. The character Agnes, despite enduring shocking emotional and physical abuse keeps you hopeful, with her wonderful optimism, resilience and intelligence that comes from her wonderfully keen observations on life.
Review from Carol Jones
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Review from Patricegotting
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Review from journalist - Diana Fortescue
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Judy King’s semi-autographical Agnes’s Broken Dreams, is a remarkable first novel. The clues are in the sub-title ‘A courageous woman’s journey to the truth’ and the dedication ‘This book is dedicated to my gifted psychiatrist…and to all adult sufferers of child abuse.’ That said, the abuse in this case is primarily, though not exclusively, psychological rather than physical.
The novel opens with Agnes, born and raised - though hardly nurtured - in Australia, flying to Sydney from London where she is escaping her husband, fortified by a book called ‘Families and How to Survive Them’.
Having lived much of her adult life in Europe as an emotional refugee from the cruelties of her childhood, her purpose is to discover and confron…
Review by TEA LEAVES AND BOOK LEAVES
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Thank you @RandomTTours and @JudyKing for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Agnes's Broken Dream is beautifully written and i found it difficult to put it down because I wanted to follow Agnes in her journey and see what happens to her. I really felt for Agnes and she very brave and i love how she chose to face her issues and heal. This is the first story i have read by Judy King and i enjoyed her style of writting and will read more books by her in the future. Great read and kept me hooked 5 stars.
Review from Felicity Dixson Sydney
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A fascinating and absorbing journey spanning childhood through to late adulthood. Deeply affecting, at times harrowing. The characterisations have a lively authenticity. The goodies shine through like nuggets of golden joy and hope . The story is an immersion into the social history of Sydney,family, relationships ,religion,loss, guilt , wealth, class, survival and success.
An uplifting redemption and transformation of the self through a lifetime of pain, discord and disconnection. Ultimately through the balm of creativity.
Review from Cecilie Sheridan
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“A deeply engaging account of a woman’s spirited quest for the truth about events in her troubled childhood and their consequences in her later life. Her story, at times evoking outrage, is related with growing intensity as she travels back in time to unearth the origins of so many mysteries.”
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- Paperback
ISBN
- ISBN: 9781803135199