Thank You for the Kiss
Written by Beth Jordan
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Published by Enigma Press
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'Thank You for the Kiss' by Beth Jordan
Will they ever let me go?
Gina had always believed herself to be strong.
A traveller, a survivor, a woman who embraced the world with curiosity and courage. But beneath her independence was a heart still quietly carrying the weight of loss - the end of a twenty-three-year relationship and the grief of losing her mother.
Searching for colour, freedom and a new beginning, Gina arrives in Cuba, a country alive with music, passion and intoxicating beauty. Among Havana's sunlit streets, salsa rhythms and unforgettable characters, she begins to rediscover the woman she thought she had lost.
But paradise can hide shadows.
Drawn into a world of desire, deception and misplaced trust, Gina finds herself caught between the life she hoped to rebuild and a reality she never expected. What begins as an adventure becomes a powerful journey through vulnerability, betrayal and the painful truths we must face before we can truly heal.
Inspired by real events, Thank You for the Kiss is a raw and captivating memoir of love, grief, obsession and awakening - a story of one woman's fight to reclaim herself when everything she believed about strength, trust and identity is challenged.
Sometimes losing yourself is the only way to finally come home.
- High-quality paperback
- Adult fiction
- B-Format 198mm x 129mm
- 345 pages (TBC)
- ISBN: 978-1-917956-55-0
- Publication date: Forthcoming
I have always felt a misfit with a burning, rebellious soul and a thirst for knowledge of global cultures, especially the cross-cultural peoples of the world.
I was born in India to Anglo-Indian/Eurasian parents, residing in old colonial railway colonies. We lived a charmed but borrowed European lifestyle, attending Catholic convents, far from home and being taught by narrow-minded nuns. I escaped my early cloistered life through my parents’ immigration to the UK. Barely here, I landed back in the arms of more nuns, until a further escape at sixteen to a teenage life of college.
I followed in the footsteps of family into careers in nursing and teaching before breaking free by setting up my own business in design and textiles, manufacturing out of China and India.
Love, marriage and a child came along to divert the course of my life, but I continued studying, particularly anthropology, which further fired my passion for travel and cultures similar to my own. I wrote down their stories, kept copious notes, and gradually melded them with my own heritage. Diary-keeping and photography became an obsession, and soon I became a scribbler, until my scribbles became my debut novel – Thank You for the Kiss.
