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FEBRUARY 2023
BLOOMING LOVELY:
SHORT STORIES IN
SUPPORT OF CHARITY
Linda Boulter, from Wigston has written a book of short stories filled with inspiration, memories, love and fun and based on real people.
The Rose Garden is a collection of fictitious short stories written to raise funds for local charity Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland.
Prior to midlife Occupational Therapy training, Linda’s working life had been a mixture of hospitality and retail. Since then, her work has been focused on health and social care. This career variety combined with family life, including raising two daughters and travelling, contributed to ideas for the short stories. This is her second self-published book with Matador.
With proceeds benefitting Age UK, it seemed fitting to include some stories
dedicated to those “Young at Heart” who attended their day centres. Joyce and Margaret, two cheeky
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sisters who never stopped laughing, decided to organise a fund-raising event for the centre they attended, at the request of their friend Edna. A celebration of the end of one century and the beginning of another, the impending Millennium. it had to be extra special and different from any other event. How did it go? Afterwards, Edna, smiled to her daughter Anne as they left the centre on that dark, cold, crisp winter’s evening. What a happy place to go to. A place where those who attend look after each other and care about each other. But it’s not all about day centres, there’s Josephine, the crazy chauffeur, a walking disaster! The three friends who visit Liverpool’s Albert Dock for their girlie weekend, Dave the Supermarket Section Manager who values his staff so much, he goes the extra mile..... and not forgetting Katie with her hidden disability the ‘Bag for Life’!
The Rose Garden is available for £7.99 and available to purchase online now
at https://www.troubador.co.uk/ bookshop/poetry-short-stories-and- plays/the-rose-garden/
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