A Bed of Stinging Nettles
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Sylvia, a laboratory assistant, is an up middle-class, religious, young girl who rebels against her abusing father.
Her father, Adolfo Echevarria, a middle class artisan who believes his daughter would become a Spanish Countess when General Franco would be out of power, brainwashes his daughter about this tale, Sylvia do not believe.
Sylvia struggles to find her identity as she live in a sordid building with her father who sexually abuses her and a mean stepmother.
Sylvia needs to escape from her father and rebels by marrying Philippe who is the typical Parisian labourer who speaks slung and cannot hold a job.
Philippe is full of anger from unresolved feelings from his childhood. He drinks heavily and become frustrated by his wife social and religious upbringing.
She loves Philippe and believes that with love and patience she could change him to be a softer man. Being too proud, she refuses to show her misery to her three children and family, and struggles by herself to keep her marriage safe for the sake of her children.
After many painful experiences and a trip to America, Philippe promises Sylvia to change when he decides that they immigrate to Australia.
A devastated Sylvia wonder if leaving her country, family and friends is worth it and she would ever find the truth about whom she really is.
Saarah D'Armill
The author is a married, pensioner, great-grandmother born in France, living in Australia. Her first language is French; however, she has done tertiary study in Australia and obtained her Advanced Certificate in Art & Design at the Ballarat School of Mines. She was always interested in writing since her childhood. She wrote many poems in French and English and children story in French which are waiting to be published, hidden in her desk drawers. Her motto is: Life is love, love is life.
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