Sarah's Price - Free online thriller romance novel

I've just noticed that Sarah's Price, my free online thriller romance novel is just seven years old now.

Since 1999, when I put it free to read online, it's had millions of readers which is fantastic. I am grateful to every one of them?

Sarah's Price is a story about a young married English woman's desperate search for solutions to newly found life of poverty imposed by the UK's recession of the nineteen nineties.

I have to confess that, when I wrote Sarah's Price, I had real anger in my heart.

The Conservative Government had consigned so many of my friend's savings to oblivion in the early 1990s. Friends had not only lost their jobs and their businesses but also, in many cases, their homes had been repossessed.

In Boscombe, Bournemouth, a large town on the south coast of England, somebody put up a big sign:

'Will the last person leaving Boscombe please turn out the lights'

In the famous words of John Major, Prime Minister of the time, "If it aint hurting, it aint working."

Believe me Mr Major, it hurt and I hope you feel good about it.

Eventually, after too many years of anger, I learned that my anger did not hurt those who had caused the hard economic landing through their mismanagement of the economy. While they moved on to earn huge fortunes on the international lecture circuits, my burning anger held me back and only hurt myself.

So, I learned not to be angry and, many years later, I now feel the better for it.

It's hard to believe anything good came of those times. People I know still have not recovered savings they lost. The Governor of the Bank of England stated they must never let it happen again. Perhaps it was a coded apology. I hope so.

In any case, Sarah's Price by Rob Hopcott lives on as a fictional story about those times and I would like to believe, a small contribution to it's epitaph.

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author)