Four Ordinary People

About the Book

The basic plot is very simple really.  Meg Blunt desperately wants to get pregnant.  However, her husband, Charlie, has a low sperm count and, although being what we lovingly call here in Australia “a right sexy bastard”,  is unable to oblige in a meaningful way.

Meg has, of course, tried everything.  But everything.  The biological clock is relentlessly ticking away, so a despairing sense of urgency prevails.  In desperation, Meg turns to her friend, Kantella, and begs her to lend her Hayden, her husband.

Now, let it be understood that Kantella Draycott is a very serious-minded individual.  Kantella has everything she wants:  a husband who is the CEO of an international firm, an executive home in an executive suburb here in Brisbane, and two adorable adolescent daughters.  

Hayden is also Charlie’s boss.  That does, I suppose, tend to complicate things a little.  

But Meg, naturally enough seizes on this fact and decides that Hayden would be just the person (“bloke” here in Oz) to render her fertile.

But, I’m afraid, I digress.  I was telling you about Kantella.  As I have just said, she is a serious-minded individual and, normally, wouldn’t permit her friend’s outrageous request to sully the calm tranquility of her somewhat inflexible mind.  However, there was this incident in the past…

…one which she has never told anyone about.  Not even her best friend, Meg.

And that complicates things somewhat.  It causes her to make decisions which, perhaps, she might not otherwise have entertained.

But Kantella isn’t the only one with a secret agenda.  There are, it seems, several skeletons rattling away in closets all over the place.  And it is the inadvertent bringing of some of these to light which alters the fabric of the tangled web these “Four Ordinary People” weave around them, changing their lives, and those of the ones they love for ever.  The ending isn’t at all what was hoped for, but all is not lost, even though many things will never be quite the same again.

About the Author

Warren Roff-Marsh, who describes himself as “old enough to know better”, was born in Oxford, England. He was trained as a Church Musician, Organist and Harpsichordist at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. After an international career, which spanned the UK, Europe and the Americas, he is now retired, which he describes as “the biggest joke of all” and lives with his wife of some forty years in a small town close to Brisbane in Australia. They have three adult sons. In addition to helping his wife, Sylvia, care for injured wildlife under the auspices of the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service, he engages in his hobbies of woodwork, photography and computer graphics. Warren has had much material published internationally. Four Ordinary People is his first full-length novel to be published by Xlibris.