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40 Life Changing Events : 2022 Edition (Memorable, Inspirational and Life Changing Stories) Kindle Edition
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…where the unforeseen lies in wait.
Surprises abound.
In this latest anthology, 25 writers share events that have changed their lives. Some stories are tragic, others full of joy, but they all encapsulate the tenacity, resilience, and self-belief of the human spirit.
During these challenging times, with the world in turmoil, it is stimulating to learn from other people’s experiences.
What will you take away from these exceptional recollections that span the generations?
This fascinating compilation will encourage you to pause and reflect, with tales that offer much needed motivation and inspiration.
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 12, 2021
- File size8039 KB
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- ASIN : B09M8JT2FH
- Publication date : December 12, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 8039 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 308 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,451,226 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #18,933 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- #66,714 in Memoirs (Books)
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About the authors
Sue Bavey (writing as S. Bavey) is an English Mum of two, living in Massachusetts since 2003 with her husband, kids, a cat named Midnight, a bunny named Nutmeg, a leopard gecko named Ziggy Stardust and occasional frogs and salamanders.
“Lucky Jack is my grandfather, Henry John Rogers’ biography. Grandad lived with us when I was born, until we moved when I was six years old. Then he came back to live with us in my teenage years and we were very close. He was my father’s father, but my Mum diligently collected the newspaper columns he dictated to a local reporter, and kept them in scrapbooks in her attic, where they gathered dust and yellowed over time. A few years ago I found all the scrapbooks and wanted to get all of those stories into a book for my kids to read. That was the germ of an idea which – thanks to my having time during Covid lockdown – has now resulted in the life story of my grandfather, Jack Rogers being written.
My second book, Daydreams and Narcoleptic Nightmares is a collection of my late father's memoirs and poetry. I collected these and chose the ones I wanted to present and in which order. Then I transcribed them, which was quite a task as my father wrote in pen or pencil on loose sheets of paper without any page numbers. He also had difficult to read handwriting so I hope my interpretations were correct!
The other books on my profile are anthologies which contain short stories written by me (and many other writers) and memoirs from my own life, including experiences moving from England to USA and other travel stories.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SueBavey
Blog: https://suelbavey.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/time-for-some-self-promotion-lucky-jack-by-s-bavey
Robert Fear has lived in Eastbourne, on the south coast of the UK for half his life. He moved there to be with Lynn, his future wife and is still there with her thirty years later. As cat-lovers they have taken on several rescue cats over the years and are owned by three at the moment - Hazell (tabby), Jet (black) and Sparky, a bouncy ginger three-year-old.
For his day job Robert works as a self-employed software consultant. In his spare time he writes, edits and self-publishes books, and organises annual travel writing competitions.
Robert’s interest in travel goes back to his twenties when he spent most of his time abroad. His experiences included; a summer in Ibiza, hitch-hiking around Europe and touring the USA & Canada. His most eventful trip was in 1981 when he travelled around Asia.
Born into a religious sect known as the Exclusive Brethren, his father John took the brave step of leaving it with his young family when Robert was nine years old. Robert never saw his grandparents again but is thankful for being able to grow up outside this restrictive group. His life has been full of adventures that he would never have experienced otherwise.
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Robert Fear’s latest anthology plumbs the personal and comes up with nuggets of gold. Intimate tales of first love, lost love and recovered love; “miracle” paintings in the Kalahari Desert; the arrival or the loss of a beloved pet; domestic strife whether between husband and wife or parent and child; the salve of consolation; the loss of all-important personal documents; the blow from a life-threatening disease, our own or that of a loved one; the coincidence that leads to a life-long and satisfying career; the hollowing out of the soul resulting from a premature death; the country life and labour as emotional therapy; a first encounter with a foreign culture; the curse of alcoholism and the blessing of recovery; a cyclone’s devastating fury; an appreciation of the depth of a parent’s love.
I am honoured to have been invited as a contributor to this volume.
You will find all of these life changing events in this volume. Most will resonate with you.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 18, 2021
Robert Fear’s latest anthology plumbs the personal and comes up with nuggets of gold. Intimate tales of first love, lost love and recovered love; “miracle” paintings in the Kalahari Desert; the arrival or the loss of a beloved pet; domestic strife whether between husband and wife or parent and child; the salve of consolation; the loss of all-important personal documents; the blow from a life-threatening disease, our own or that of a loved one; the coincidence that leads to a life-long and satisfying career; the hollowing out of the soul resulting from a premature death; the country life and labour as emotional therapy; a first encounter with a foreign culture; the curse of alcoholism and the blessing of recovery; a cyclone’s devastating fury; an appreciation of the depth of a parent’s love.
I am honoured to have been invited as a contributor to this volume.
You will find all of these life changing events in this volume. Most will resonate with you.


The first thing that impresses is the breadth of human experience on display, from the prosaic to the profound. While toe clips, bicycle rides, giving up smoking, and cleaning up houses of the deceased have descended into the prosaic during our lifetimes, chance encounters that define career paths, rabid cat bites during a snowstorm, instant marriage and divorce in a foreign country, and setting up a house on water must still count for profound experiences.
The settings range from South Africa, to Peru, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Argentina, Britain and her far flung dominions, and to continental Europe. And what intrigued me was the extension of setting into Cyberspace where one author explores the extent of the human-computer interface by assigning Alexa the role of Personal Support Worker. I was excited when one story described a trek to Machu Picchu that I had taken around the same time and had fictionalized in one of my novels – the descriptions were almost identical.
Want to know how to navigate the Argentinian bureaucracy to run a business, or how to marry someone after knowing them for only eleven days over four years, or how to get things done in Cuba under the radar, or how to run away from public school in England, or how to send your spouse signals through a game of Scrabble that you want out of a marriage, or how to tip in Vietnam, or how to write a letter to a separated partner? This book has some interesting lessons for all those situations. And there are others too, including an extract from the diary of a British soldier who was captured by the Germans during WWI, on his birthday!
An obvious limitation with collections of this kind is that the experiences have to be condensed into less than 3000-word articles, and that makes for rather jerky narratives that sacrifice the emotive in favor of the descriptive. The wide assortment of writers also makes for a diversity of styles, forcing the reader to regroup with fresh eyes and a new set of allowances before beginning each piece.
A good read for those who want great experiences in life, but realize that they only have a limited time to pack it all in. So why not borrow from those who have already trod the path?