Sally Jenkins

‘Waiting for a bright new future’ – does that describe you or someone you know?

We’re all guilty, at some point in our lives, of hoping that something will turn up out of the ether and improve our lives. It might be a better job, a new relationship or big win on the lottery. As we get older, we learn things like that rarely happen unless we take positive action ourselves in order to turn our lives in the direction we’d like them to go.

Stuart Borefield is the middle-aged hero of my new novel, Waiting for a Bright New Future. The death of his father and the selfish attitude of his older brothers mean that Stuart will soon be homeless – unless he takes positive action to chase after that bright new future which has eluded him for decades. As in our lives, things aren’t plain sailing for Stuart. He has to find himself a job, decide how he feels about his new lodger and take on commitments that, on the surface, he’d rather not.  The most difficult thing is finding the confidence to pursue these things. Simply waiting for that bright new future isn’t going to produce results for Stuart, just as it won’t for the rest of us.

Waiting for a Bright New Future will be published by Joffe Books on December 5th 2023 and is available to preorder on Kindle now for only 99p.

I hope you grow as fond of Stuart as I did while I was writing about him and throwing obstacles in his way.

And remember: sitting back and waiting for that bright new future doesn’t work – you need to go out and grab it!