Fractured Healer

A leading surgeon has lived with the trauma of being raped as a student back at the start of the 1980s. It takes all her inner strength to get closure and move on from this. In the years following we follow the development of her character, and see how this hugely traumatic event shapes her life and those who interact with her. Thirty years later the guilt, trauma, friendship, and perseverance, intersect and will bring everything back together. This is a story of how someone must rebuild their self-esteem, while others around them seek for redemption. It is the flame of first love that will also be reignited many years later. This novel will have a wide appeal, dealing with first love, together with regrets and loneliness of 40-something life. The continuous thread of self-empowerment encourages the reader to wrestle with the moral and ethical questions of understanding the effects of a crime on both the victim and offender.