Now scheduling a one month tour for The Wooden Chair by Rayne E. Golay
This tour will run September 16- October 14 (weekdays only)
I am scheduling guest blogs, interviews, and spotlight stops
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To participate in this tour please send:
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A couple suggested dates during the tour
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Please let me know if you wish to review, I have to submit requests to the publisher
Please let me know if you wish to review, I have to submit requests to the publisher
The
Wooden Chair
Rayne
E. Golay
Genre: Family saga/literary
fiction
Publisher: Untreed Reads Publication
Date of Publication: May 15, 2013
ISBN: 9781611875614
Number of pages: 317
Word Count: 100,00
Book
Description:
Winner of the Royal Palm Award, Florida
Writers Association
Set against the background of the
Finno-Russian winter war, this story starts I Helsinki in 1943 and spans over
fifty years of Leini Bauman’s life.
As a child, Leini stands ready to
do anything to win her mother Mira’s love. This effort costs her the sight in
one eye and as a result, causes her to endure bullying from kids her own age.
As a teenager, with her Grandpa’s help, she undergoes one more surgery to
straighten her eye, but the psychological scar of the events of her childhood
remain.
Leini struggles to break free of
Mira’s tyranny by leaving her native Helsinki to study psychology at Geneva
University. A few years later, married, herself to a wonderful man, about to become
a mother, she is determined with her own children not to repeat Mira’s
behavior. With the help of a psychiatrist, she labors through the pains of past
hurts to become a nurturing and loving mother and wife, as well as a successful
professional, as she grows from victim to victor over adversity. Can her
efforts lead her to the one thing she needs to discover the most - the ability
to forgive her mother?
About
the Author:
Whenever I pause and think about
my past, I realized I’ve lived three lives in one. Some people are lucky to
spend their whole life in the village or town or country where they were born.
They’re surrounded by relatives and friends they’ve known since childhood, have
deep roots. I believe they are very rich. My life has been made of a different
cloth with hues of the rainbow. It’s been about change and adaptation.
I was born in Helsinki, Finland.
For various reasons I changed schools three times before Highschool. When I was
very small, my mother used to read to me. She helped me put letters together to
form words. As she was done reading “A
Thousand and One Nights” my passion was born. From then on, I read everything
with the printed word: matchboxes, newspapers, pamphlet and books, of course. I
was no more than six years old when my father obtained a library card for me.
Believe me, that was one of the happiest days of my childhood. To this day, I
read at least three books a week. In school, I always had high grades in
composition and wanted to be a journalist, but my parents had other plans. I
got a Masters degree in psychology, was certified as addictions counselor in
England after studies in the United States.
Skilled in languages, from the
age of fifteen I translated dialogues in Hollywood movies from English into
Finnish and Swedish. This, my first paying job, came through my father, who was
the Nordic managing director of a prominent American film company.
After graduation, I married, had
two children in rapid succession. My then husband was transferred to Geneva,
Switzerland, so that’s where we moved with our two wonderful children.
In Geneva, I worked in a
multinational company as an addictions counselor with responsibilities for all
of the company’s European subsidiaries.
During this time, I wrote two non-fiction books: one about alcoholism,
another about dysfunction in the workplace. I also wrote the script to
“Something of The Danger That Exists,” a 50 minute film, used within the
company as part of an educational program, which I facilitated. In my function,
I was a frequent speaker on dependence at conferences and business groups. As I
oversaw company sites throughout Europe and the then East Block countries, I’m
fortunate to have traveled extensively.
As an avid reader, I’ve read most
American, French and Russian classics, modern literature and poetry. It may
seem that my books are autobiographical, particularly THE WOODEN CHAIR, but
that’s not so. I believe in writing about what I know, so my life has parallels
in Leini’s story, but I guess you have to read the book to find out more.
My whole life I’ve longed for the
sun and warmth. When opportunity presented itself, I took up residence in
Florida. I live here with my partner, my best friend and husband.
The award winning novel THE
WOODEN CHAIR is my second book. At present, I’m editing my third story.
Every book is a journey so enjoy
the trip.
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