When Margot Delacroix dies at forty-two years old, she is sent
back to earth as a guardian angel - to herself. Renamed Ruth, she
is forced by divine mandate to re-experience and record her biggest
mistakes and fiercest regrets from the beginning of her life to her
untimely death. Forced from the moment of her birth to witness the
cogs of fate and the stuttering engine of free will, Ruth sets out
to change the course of her life, and, ultimately, to prevent her
premature death. When she realises that the reasons behind her
teenage son''s descent into drugs and murder lay within her own
actions as Margot, she makes a pact with a demon ? she will give up
her place in Heaven in exchange for the opportunity to save her son
from his fate. But the changes she makes result in consequences no
one could expect...
關於作者:
Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in 1978 to a musical family in
Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an award-winning author of poems
and novels for adults, as well as four non-fiction books in the
areas of Shakespeare, cinema, and film sequels. Her first poetry
collection, Inroads, won the Tyrone Guthrie Prize, an Eric Gregory
Award from the Society of Authors, a Northern Promise Award, and
was shortlisted for the New London Poetry Prize. Her bestselling
novel, The Guardian Angel''s Journal, was published in 2011 in the
UK Commonwealth Piatkus, USA Guideposts, and in 19 other
languages.