Jessica Thompson, a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, was born in Syracuse, New York, and currently lives in Naples, Florida. Jessica worked for twelve years as a buyer and merchandise manager for major department stores in Chicago and Boston. She later transitioned to a career in the financial industry, working for a large Boston Bank as a Branch Manager and a Mortgage Loan Officer.
While raising her two daughters, she developed her creative passions for fashion design and home decorating. When Jessica’s daughters entered college, she fulfilled another lifelong love, that of sports. She began coaching field hockey and lacrosse for young girls in two public school districts and coached lacrosse and umpire field hockey.
Jessica finds a true sense of reward from her latest career as her players enter college and play their sport in the NCAA. Jessica is an avid female golfer with a handicap of 12.0 at 61 years old! She is proud that she had passed this down to her two daughters, who are better than her at golf. As an author Jessica is excited to share her new book, Don’t Forget Your Sweater, Girl: Sister to Sister Secrets for Aging with Purpose and Humor.
In her latest book, Don’t Forget Your Lipstick, Girl; Sister to Sister Secrets for Gaining Confidence, Courage, and Power, Jessica interviewed young women across the country, mapping the terrain of the gender divide. Her interviews reveal an uncomfortable truth: although women may display self-confidence in their professional lives, they continue to struggle with sharing a seat at the table with men. She co-presents with her sister on the topic of women and self-empowerment.
'The moon was speckled like a bird's egg. It hung reliably in the blackness above Will Turnbull and Nessa Grier who sat side by side on a bench as the leaves fell around them, landing softly on the thick, wet grass. Their knees were just touching, hearts pounding hard.'
Nessa Bruce waits for her husband to come through the double doors. She'd waited for him to return home from Afghanistan for what felt like forever, and now the moment was finally here. But Jake isn't... Jake Bruce hasn't come home, and it looks like he never will.
Nessa's life - and that of her daughter Poppy - is turned upside down in an instant. What has happened to the elusive man at the centre of their world? They hold onto the hope that he is still out there somewhere, alive... but as time passes by, Nessa is forced to look at her life, at the decisions she has made and the secrets she has kept. For maybe somewhere within it all lies the answer to the question she's desperate to answer - where is the man she loves?
The Waiting Game is perfect for reading groups with lots of twists and turns, and big topics such as mental ilness, discussed in a fresh and sensitive way.
Título : The Waiting Game
EAN : 9781444776577
Editorial : Hodder & Stoughton
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