Here's another gem to add to the summer reading pile; American literary author Dori Ostermiller's new novel, Outside the Ordinary World, is to be published next month. The book will be released on August 17. Read on for the synopsis, and visit Dori Ostermiller's website for more information about Dori and her books.
'Do you feel as though you had a choice? Or were you driven by forces beyond your control?' Questions that still echo thirty years later...Sylvia Sandon always swore she wouldn't become her mother. But one August morning she finds herself walking the same path...into an affair she feels powerless to resist. Against the backdrop of California bush fires in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Sylvia had agreed to hold a secret that would devour her family's dream of happiness. Now struggling to create a better life, Sylvia nonetheless feels caught in the coils of history: she confronts the embers of her dying marriage, the all-consuming needs of her two daughters and her faltering artistic career. Then Tai Rosen - the father of a student - ignites an unexpected passion and a familiar betrayal that could illuminate the past, even as it jeopardises everything dear. "Outside the Ordinary World" reveals what lies beneath the surface of infidelity. But at its heart, it is the story of the powerful, sometimes disturbing bond between mothers and daughters, and the shimmering line between self-revelation and self-destruction...
