Heart Lines: Writings on Life, Love and Everything Between
Suzanne Power
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Book
€12.99
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Publication date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-907535-22-2
Category: Health/Mind, Body, Spirit/Memoir
Type: Paperback
Price: €12.99
‘Fail better,’ Samuel Beckett advised, and Suzanne Power’s failures have amounted to a thirty-five year career in print. She first got paid for writing when she was eight years old. Her writings have appeared in many national publications in Britain and Ireland over the past quarter century. She grew up on paper and shared her experiences of life, loves and places between with readers over those decades.
Heart Lines follows her through broken and blazing love affairs, through depression, illness, motherhood, countries and conversations with many well known figures. Her honesty has kept her following her heart which forced her to move seventy times from the age of seventeen and to set foot on every continent.
There’ll be other moves, but the truth of her heart line remains the same: ‘Destiny is not a foolish device to keep us hopeful. It is a migraine if it’s ignored. I just wish it would help me pay the price for the chains refused. The bill keeps getting bigger.’
‘Life is about decisions and nothing else. Decisions create the storyboard of our life.’
Follow her heart line through her key events, hear her insistent honesty on everything from holding her newborns to wishing for her own death: ‘The lies were too hard to live when I told them. Love is the author of your heart line.’
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About the author
Suzanne Power was born in Dublin in 1968. She has been writing she was eight years old and Her books have sold rights to territories worldwide. She has contributed to several non-fiction and short-story anthologies.
For fifteen years she has been an editor, reviewer and columnist with many of Ireland’s leading newspapers and magazines. She has a longstanding column in the Evening Herald and wrote the successful ‘Spiritual Sunday’ series which ran in the Sunday Tribune. She has worked as a broadcaster, writer and researcher for BBC, ITV and RTE.
Suzanne has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a BA in Journalism from DIT. She works at NUI Maynooth and its Kilkenny outreach campus, as well as in community settings. Her workshops attract a following as she believes in the writing community and the spirit of imagination. She has worked on that basis with everyone from school refusers to the terminally ill. She mentors and edits anthologies for writing communities that have attracted national interest and coverage in media.
Suzanne was a Fish Short Story competition winner.
She lives in rural County Wexford in what she describes as ‘an eventful utopia’.