A Place To Belong
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After her father's death, when she was eight, Jill and her mother moved from town to town as her mother moved from job to job, each taking her higher on the ladder of success. When her mother marries the owner of a prestigious line of dress shops, six-teen-year-old Jill thinks her life is perfect—a beautiful home, a private school, and she's dating the most popular boy in school. Then disaster strikes when she loses her sight due to a brain tumor.
The day before she leaves the hospital her mother tells her that she'll be going for an extended visit with her father's mother, someone she's seen only once, while her mother and stepfather go to Europe on business
As she travels to rural Virginia, she feels totally abandoned. She knows that her stepfather is paying her grandmother for her keep, and she can't shake the feeling that her mother simply doesn't want to be bothered with a daughter, and especially with one who is blind. Too, there is the matter of why her grandparents and parents never had anything to do with each other.
Travel with Jill as she masters her new world of darkness, learns to love family and friends, faces the thing that forced her father away from her grandparents, and finds the true secret of belonging.
This is a story of courage and love, and a must read for anyone facing blindness, as well as for anyone who has an interest in learning more about the world of the blind, especially that of a young blind person. Besides that, it's just a good story for anybody young or old who likes to read.
Phyllis Campbell
Phyllis Campbell has been writing professionally since the 60's, and won her first prize for her writing when she was eleven. She teaches piano and voice as well as tutors in Braille and computer skills. She writes two bi-monthly columns for Our Special, a Braille magazine for blind women. She is the organist at Faith Lutheran Church in historic down town Staunton, Virginia. Her hobbies are knitting, collecting recipes, reading and listening to music. She lives in Staunton, Virginia with her husband, Chuck.Her work has appeared in such publications as The Christian Herald, The Lutheran, The Lutheran woman, and similar inspirational publications. In addition she has written for the romance market for McFadden's Woman's Group. Her recorded material From My Kitchen has been used by the Virginia Department For the Vision Impaired, and she has written a true crime book under contract to the victim's family.Although she has sold two titles to the mainstream print market, one of which has been published in the UK and China as well as the US, she sees the bright future of the digital market. "Who Will Hear Them Cry" is her first digital title, it won't be the last. Look for more from this author in the near future, including other titles featuring Kate Talbot from "Who Will Hear Them Cry."
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