Becoming Me: A Fairytale - The Beginning

by Kay Rose-Hattrick

Overview

'Becoming Me' is a fairytale about a girl from Sheffield. She's statistically average, but not necessarily ordinary.

Since being a young girl, she has pondered how she fits into the world, discovering herself along the way, desperate to remember who she was, not who she had become.

She had conformed to the programme that her father and the rest of society had expected her to follow, and that made her ill. At forty, she emerged as a dragonfly from her old life, desperate to break free from the system and live a simple life, free of consumerism. Her dream: to be self-sustaining; tend the land and look after animals.

After being made redundant from the NHS, moving a three bedroomed house into her van, she escaped to rural Portugal with her husband, never planning to return. Becoming Me is about a girl everyone can relate to, because she's real. She still has her dream and is more determined than ever to fulfil her life's purpose. You will cry and laugh out loud at her life's ups and downs, in a world without mercy.

'A memoir of force and charm which gives a visitor to Earth a great insight into the spiritual, emotional and working life of an 'average' female living in Britain from 1970 to 2010. Shockingly honest and funny.'
Tom Butler-Bowdon, author of Never Too Late To Be Great and 50 Self-Help Classics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783015641
Publisher:	eBookPartnership.com
Publication date:	10/23/2014
Series:	Alpha Girl Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Kay currently lives in Sheffield with her husband and three year old daughter. She has worked for the public and charity sectors in communications, marketing, events and public relations for most of her working career. More recently as communications officer for NHS Sheffield and Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT). She started writing her memoirs in January 2009 when the health service finally made her ill and was signed off with work related stress by her GP.

At first, writing was just her therapy, and to show the parts of her life that her father chose not to see. After nearly a decade, she was made redundant from the now fifth largest employee in the world, and left the UK to start a new life in rural Portugal with her husband.

This didn’t quite go to plan and they were forced to return, just before Christmas 2010. Returning to Sheffield with no money, home, or job to fall back, she discovered she was pregnant. At age of 41 her life had changed forever; she had become a mother.
Three years after the birth of her daughter, she finally completed the manuscripts for both “Becoming Me” - The Beginning, and “Becoming Free” - The Middle. These two books unveil Kay’s life story from growing up in Sheffield, falling in and out of love, the ups and downs of working for the local NHS, leaving it all behind and then making the tough decision to return. Her knack at getting herself into trouble prompted one reader to give her the title of Sheffield’s answer to Bridget Jones.

The story will make you laugh and cry and is a must-read for anybody who has ever dreamed of clearing their desk, packing their life into a van and driving off into the sunset.
Her story is yours too.