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Women 'n' Love: So Happy I Could Die
In today's world, how can who you fall in love with change how society thinks of you? How can falling in love with your ideal life partner shunt every facet of your being behind your sexuality? Everything you are, and that you've achieved, all relegated behind your love for another?
Jill and Mel met and connected in a way neither could have foreseen. Hitherto both considering themselves heterosexual, one has a partner, the other a husband. So their journey to where they want to be can't run smoothly, if they can get there at all.
Aware of how society would restrict them, and their love for each other, they question why their love should change them. And why society should dictate their identity to them. And why everything they are, everything they've achieved should be shunted behind what society perceives their sexuality to be; and when all they desire is to be left to live their lives quietly, without fuss just as they have always done.
Set in Edinburgh through 2010 to a backdrop of the debate about civil marriage for same sex partners, the girls have to negotiate the full gamut of emotions as they struggle to understand what is happening to them, and the effect it will have on their lives and their world. For them, the issues are as simple as Black and White.
But through it all, they derive great strength from the depth of their connection with each other.
Jill and Mel met and connected in a way neither could have foreseen. Hitherto both considering themselves heterosexual, one has a partner, the other a husband. So their journey to where they want to be can't run smoothly, if they can get there at all.
Aware of how society would restrict them, and their love for each other, they question why their love should change them. And why society should dictate their identity to them. And why everything they are, everything they've achieved should be shunted behind what society perceives their sexuality to be; and when all they desire is to be left to live their lives quietly, without fuss just as they have always done.
Set in Edinburgh through 2010 to a backdrop of the debate about civil marriage for same sex partners, the girls have to negotiate the full gamut of emotions as they struggle to understand what is happening to them, and the effect it will have on their lives and their world. For them, the issues are as simple as Black and White.
But through it all, they derive great strength from the depth of their connection with each other.
273 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 8, 2012
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