The Brink is being promoted as an addictive love story told in reverse. It kicks of with the main characters, Dan and Anya Moorcroft, heading into a legal discussion to sort out their divorce. Surrounded by lawyers and paperwork, they start out on a painful journey through couples' mediation, looking at the high and low points of their marriage in order to find an itinerary towards the future.
The couple have two young children and many of the mediator's questions lead to both of them opening up about specific key moments throughout their marriage, leading to poignant and emotion-filled personal stories. There are the light-hearted and happy looks back at their first dates, worrying times that problems came up with the kids and circumstances that threw their happily-made life plans off track. For example, just as the young couple were excitedly planning a new life in the exciting city of New York, Dan's friend/boss/landlord unexpectedly died in an accident and left his house and music shop to Dan, making the trip Stateside an impossibility as they struggled to get everything under control. The trip to America was what had prompted Dan to propose to Anya, to make it possible for him to accompany her without a job set up, but even as their life was thrown off course, they seemed able to create a new happy life journey together.
Obviously, if divorce is on the cards, it wasn't all happy times though and both of the spouses strayed from the nest, embarking on affairs that stoked up a whole host of negative emotions that it was hard to work through. The couple want to stay friends though and are trying to work things out fairly, until Anya suddenly announces out of the blue that she plans on taking the kids back to Ireland, so that she can be closer to her dying dad, and things suddenly get more complicated.
Working through the old stories of times past leads to some emotional rekindling of long lost feelings, but is that really enough to give their marriage one last chance or is it too little too late? Working through to the end of the mediation is the only way that they will find out.
Prepare for an emotional trip as you watch this couple retell the story of their life together, looking at the bad times and the good. It's impossible to tell how things will turn out until the very end and even then, we have no idea if they have made the right decision or not.
star rating : 4.5/5
- Publisher : Legend Press (4 May 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1915643872
- ISBN-13 : 978-1915643872
RRP : £8.99
Disclosure : I received a review copy of the book in order to share my honest opinion.
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