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Cheryl and Ashley
Cheryl and Ashley! Who hasn’t read the headlines lately, or speculated on their relationship? Allegedly they are to reunite after a very painful divorce. You can’t help wondering what it is that draws this couple together; chemistry, yes, but what kind? In my novel EAST END ANGEL I deal with a break-up of a very close marriage. Pearl and Jim have a love that should last forever. They are passionate about each other and yet, their bond is broken by something bigger and more powerful, a blast from the past in the form of an ex-lover. And not just any ex; Ricky is drop-dead gorgeous. Complicating the situation, is the fact that Pearl’s sister, brings Ricky back into their lives, on Pearl and Jim’s wedding day. For Cheryl and Ashley’s love to survive, they’ll need to have something very special gluing them together, as do my own hero and heroine. Many have speculated that Taylor and Burton were soul mates, inextricably linked in this life and perhaps in other lives before and after? But the common denominator for all couples unable to separate is perhaps, an overriding thirst for each other’s company, a thirst that simply can’t be quenched. Writing EAST END ANGEL took me back to what is was like to feel such a thirst and how life gradually steers most of us away from that state. Whatever it is that Cheryl and Ashley have between them, it’s for them alone to pursue. Fascinating for us as bystanders. But what a rich enchantment for two people to experience! And how powerless anyone else is, to alter its course.
