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Red Couch in the Sky is inspired by the author’s reflections on her life and times. Born in the sixties and brought up amongst traditional views about a woman’s place in the family and workplace, this quirky memoir takes us through the vegetable allotment that is her journey to date. The self-deprecating Northern wit she was raised on is never far away in this heart-warming celebration of the mundanity, randomness, and circularity of life, when sometimes the only plan we have is to put one foot in front of the other. Plagued by self-doubt, she navigates her way through university, then raging chauvinism in the workplace and personal tragedy. Having survived the chaos of raising a family whilst forging ahead in her career, the author comes to understand that she has unconsciously chosen to live in the shadow of others. With Alice, her grandmother’s gobby ghost, and even various inanimate objects around her revelling in their new-found vocal spotlight, she realises that it is now also her time. Though belief systems and expectations change over time, the memoir celebrates the connectedness of generations and, above all, the power of nature and the human spirit to transcend the ebbs and flows of life.

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Judith Nicol was born in Cleethorpes in 1962. The first female on either side of the family to attend university, she subsequently moved to London and married Stephen, a fellow Cambridge graduate. They brought up their three sons and lived in Manchester for twenty years. She spent 20 years as a Head-hunter in London and Manchester and subsequently founded and ran her own coaching business until she pursued her current artistic interests. Home is now in a village near Penrith in Cumbria. This is her first book which she has been promising to write for nearly twenty years.

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