Still Breathing
- ISBN-10
- 0992343380
- ISBN-13
- 9780992343385
- Series
- Still Breathing
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-11-19
- Author
- Melanie Likos
Description
Melanie Likos had lived a big life. Travelling the world cooking for the upper class on luxury yachts, waiting tables in the ski fields of France and falling foul of a ghost who haunted her on Chinese ship, her adventures were in themselves worthy of a book. On return home, she took a job as a tour guide in the Kimberly's and found love in a handsome cowboy. That love quickly turned sour, and the harrowing journey they took across Australia demonstrates how easily a strong and independent woman can fall captive to a violent man. At a time when a woman dies every week at the hands of her male partner, it makes for horrifying and yet absolutely necessary reading.Her story of survival would in itself be remarkable, if it wasn't for what came next. Weeks after escaping him, her friends coax her out of the house for a day out on the Murray River. Those first few tentative steps she takes towards reclaiming her sense of security, personal safety and liberty, are stolen from her in one devastating hour. On one of the blackest days in Australian history, Mel finds herself again fighting for her life. Still Breathing is the gripping story of a young woman who has not once, not twice, but repeatedly fought for her very breath - and yet done so with a dry wit and an unshakeable sense of her own sense of self, and all that she has to live for.
