An Extraordinary Ordinary Life (Ebook)

She bought a stranger's happy memories. Now she misses a daughter she never had. Margaret Thwaite is seventy-one, a retired nurse living alone with her cat in a bungalow on Morecambe seafront. One wet October, she walks into the Memory Exchange and buys a package of ordinary memories: a seaside holiday, a birthday tea, a school nativity. In every one of them is the same little girl. She calls Margaret Mum. Within weeks Margaret is dreaming about the child every night: her teenage years, her first driving lesson, a railway platform where she walks away without looking back. Margaret knows the memories are borrowed. She can't stop grieving anyway. Then, at the end of a car journey that isn't hers, she hears a lullaby she sang once, forty-seven years ago, to a baby nobody knew about. AN EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY LIFE: a novella of memory, grief and love. Complete and standalone, from ThextonLabs. WHAT YOU GET - The complete novella (10,500 words, 42 pages) - EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Google Play Books - 6x9 PDF that reads beautifully on any phone, tablet or computer HOW TO READ IT - Kindle: send the EPUB to your Kindle with the free Send to Kindle app or email - iPhone and iPad: open the EPUB in Apple Books - Android: open the EPUB in Google Play Books, or just open the PDF - Computer: open the PDF PLEASE NOTE - This is a DIGITAL download. Nothing physical will be shipped. - Personal use only: please don't share or resell the files. - Contains themes of grief and loss of a child. Suitable for adult readers. - Written and designed by ThextonLabs with the help of AI tools, then edited and proofread.