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Susan Wingate
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"THE HEARTBREAK OF TIME TRAVEL"
Reviewed by Stephanie Elizabeth Long for Reader Views (12/2024)
"Snuffy Cod’s husband is going to die. There is no circumnavigating the truth. Unless—unless she can somehow find a way to travel through time and live somewhere between yesterday and today, pushing off tomorrow. Then maybe he doesn’t have to die at all. Snuffy knows better than this, of course. But it’s nice to imagine.
“The Heartbreak of Time Travel” by Susan Wingate is a stunning memoir about Snuffy’s life as a caregiver to her dying husband, who she affectionately refers to as The Hubby, as he suffers from Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). As the disease progresses and The Hubby’s cognition rapidly declines, he becomes a shell of the man he used to be. Suddenly, Snuffy relies on her thoughts and humor to fill that void. Snuffy, an f-bomb enthusiast (but trying to quit), is an eccentric narrator who tends to go off on tangents and steer away from typical timelines. She’ll jump from thought to thought quickly, but you’ll find it easy to follow along as there is beauty and simplicity in her musings.
"A mystery lover’s delight with plenty of small-town charm, shocking twists, and a puzzling mystery." ~The Prairies Book Review
ABOUT SUSAN
Susan Wingate is #1 Amazon bestselling author of sixteen books both fiction and nonfiction. Influenced by where she lives, the woods surrounding Susan's home often find there way into the setting of her novels. Susan Wingate writes both suspenseful and meaningful stories that stir the soul.
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WHEN YOU LEAVE ME by Susan Wingate “A twisty mystery about love, betrayal, and obsession. In a small town, everyone’s a murder suspect. The ending packs a punch and remains in the reader's mind long after turning the final page. Thriller aficionados will devour this story.” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series “A cup of hot coffee at my side, I dove into Susan Wingate’s When You Leave Me. The coffee was cold when I reached for a sip, so enthralled I was by the storyline. Artfully constructed, melodic, and insightful, When You Leave Me is not just a complex, captivating mystery—it’s a poignant reminder to never take love for granted.” —Christopher Rosow, author of the bestselling False Assurances and the Ben Porter thriller series “Susan Wingate grabs you from the very first sentence of When You Leave Me and never lets you go. This thriller is a roller coaster ride of tension and suspense, delivered in punchy, elegant prose and with dialogue that provides a window into the personalities of the author’s characters. You’re going to love this one.” —Joseph Badal, award-winning author of The Carnevale Conspiracy “What Susan Wingate does best in When You Leave Me, as in her previous novels, is to make human pain palpable to the reader. In this newest offering, threads of pain run through every page. On San Juan Island off the coast of Washington, a husband with dementia goes missing. Then a foot in a sneaker washes ashore amidst a rash of such grotesque discoveries. Thus begins, for Jamie Michaels, the missing man’s wife, a tormented journey as she claws her way through a sea turgid with grief, guilt, and fear. Is Jamie responsible for her husband’s fate? The police seem to think so, and so does she. But that, in the end, isn’t the question. The real questions, as every person knows who has ever cared for a loved one with dementia, are how long must this punishment last? And how can I possibly survive it?” –Randall Silvis, author of the critically acclaimed Ryan DeMarco mystery series
"My love of books is largely due to the Sevilla Elementary School librarian. I ran to her to tell on Jeff Sloggins who, after slurping spinach around in his mouth at lunch one day, gagged, choked, then vomited on our table in the school cafeteria. Librarians are the best."
~Susan Wingate