The Life of (A Single Parent) Brian!

by Rowlands, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781452075013
• ISBN10: 1452075018
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-20
• Publisher: Textstream

Summary

What happens when after ten years of what you thought was a happy and normal family life your wife suddenly turns your world upside down and leaves, leaving you, heartbroken and in shock and with two expectant young children to care for and raise? First you hit the bottle, get seriously drunk and hit a downward spiral in free fall, heading for certain disaster. Then, once you've hit rock bottom, you take stock of the situation, pick yourself up, dust yourself down and begin the long and difficult climb out of the abyss, putting life together again piece by arduous piece. This is what happened to Brian Rowlands and this is his true story. Beginning with the end of his marriage, this book charts his and his children's journey along the long and very rocky road they encountered as they struggled to re-build their shattered lives and put some kind of stability and substance back in place. Filled with many highs and lows and told in an honest and open manner this book charts the last ten years in this single parent family's remarkable life. From heartbreak to happiness, through disastrous relationships, difficult medical problems and eleven different homes in five years, their story will entertain, enthrall and shock. Drawing the reader in, once started it is a book that the reader will want to go on reading, page after page, leaving you begging for more and wanting to know just what happens next.

Excerpts

From single parents To The general reader alike, this book has a broad appeal, being both informative and entertaining. Charting the remarkable true story of one family's struggle to come to terms with and adjust to a life changing situation, it is a book that once started will not want to be put down. Telling the story of how a supposedly happily married man suddenly found himself single again and with two young and expectant children to raise, it charts the last ten years of their lives and their constant and ongoing struggle to overcome the odds that life threw at them. From the father's personnel battle to overcome the severe shock and subsequent depression of being left by his children's mother, To the children's own personnel adjustment to their new life, we are taken on a journey of discovery as the family gingerly and with great difficulty, put their shattered lives back together again piece by piece. There are many surprises along the way and not always pleasant ones; for this family, life seems determined to deliver continuous hard knocks and problems! From living together cramped into one bedroom, through eleven home moves in five years, through disastrous, (and sometimes violent) relationships, through heart braking medical difficulties, this tale is packed with vivid detail and will amaze the reader with tales of endurance, struggle and hardship. Undeterred by their problems they battle on, determined to overcome what is thrown at them and build a secure and happy life for themselves. Told in an open minded and totally honest manner, this is an in depth account of what happened and will open the eyes of the reader into the often frowned upon world of single parenting. With no punches pulled, The Author tells his story as it happened and manages to draw the reader into the story and experience it for themselves. Amusing at times, shocking at others. it will leave the reader breathless and hungry for more. For single parents everywhere, (especially single fathers), this makes essential reading, being informative as well as entertaining and showing just what can be achieved with the right attitude and dogged determinism. For the general reader it is a chance to look at things from the perspective of the single parent, bringing an amount of understanding of the difficulties faced in the daily struggle to raise your children alone. All this aside, it is also a very entertaining read, a real page turner, delivering much to think about And The realization that for some of us life really is a daily battle of survival. Everything that is written in this book actually happened; at times this is hard to accept because of the sheer abundance of events but it is a wholly true and fascinating account of this family's life changing event and subsequent survival and fight for what most people take for granted, stability, security and happiness.