‘A Faded Cottage’ fuses fact with fiction to depict a compelling love story, based around an artist suffering from Essential Tremor. The love story imparts a powerful message, while acting as a real-life vehicle for vital Essential Tremor awareness. While the protagonist in ‘A Faded Cottage’ may appear to have a unique story, his battle with Essential Tremor (causing rhythmic trembling of the hands, head, voice, legs, or trunk) is shared with over 10 million Americans and millions more worldwide. The book is a stark reminder of the prevalence of this often ignored disorder.
‘A Faded Cottage’ is a South Carolina love story about a man with Essential Tremor.
When a love letter written by a teenage boy becomes lost after a summer filled with passion, it brings about an incredible love story of two people being reunited, after thirty years.
When Essential Tremors take over a famous artist’s body, a simple feat of holding a paintbrush turns Quaid Witherspoon’s life upside down, becoming a bitter man. This is his journal of how he battles fate, not of his entire life, but of two weeks. Quaid had everything money could buy, except the two things he loved the most, his love of painting great masterpieces, and the only woman he had ever loved. The calming waters off the coast of South Carolina calls Quaid back to Hathaway Cove, to a small, faded cottage, one with a leaning front porch, worn paint so similar to him, flawed. The same beach where he began painting as a young boy, the place he met his one true love, and the place he let her go.
Sandy, Quaid’s love from his past, learns he is wondering about her, just as she is wondering about him. Their love is alive, meeting for the first time in thirty years, letting the years fade away, but fate has another twist. Sandy keeps a secret, letting them have their two weeks.
What if you were able to relive your life and rediscover you teenage love… Would you?
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Good book for a rainy day in that it can be read in a day or two. As a person with ET, it was amazing to be reading a novel about lives affected by this disease.
Lovely story … well done!
Good book for a rainy day in that it can be read in a day or two. As a person with ET, it was amazing to be reading a novel about lives affected by this disease.
Lovely story … well done!