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NOT THE LIFE IMAGINED


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How long does it take a body to burn? He has no idea. That’s almost four hours now. He’s turned the furnace up to max but with no viewing window available, it’s hard to know if anything recognisable might remain. His watch says 5.30. Is it safe to leave? Maintenance staff arrive at eight. He must be well away by then….… Out of the cobwebbed fire door the main road is quiet. Chilly for May. He’s hungry. Might there still be bacon in the fridge? Or would someone have finished it after the pub last night?


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NOT THE LIFE IMAGINED
Anne Pettigrew
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A graduate of Glasgow (Medicine) and Wolfson College, Oxford (Anthropology), Anne Pettigrew has been a GP, worked in psychiatry, family planning and sexual health, lectured, founded patient and women doctors pressure groups, been a BMA Press officer, Homeopathic practitioner, acupuncturist, EEC Committee Member, book reviewer and contributed medico-political/humorous articles to The Herald, medical newspapers/journals, the Sunday Times/Telegraph, Channel 4 documentaries etc. Now retired, she had a spell as a wedding planner for a charity theatre before starting classes and mentoring at Glasgow University and now participates in a Glasgow critical writer’s forum. She has won short story and article trophies in Greenock Writer’s Club. Not the life Imagined was runner up in the Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable Silver Stag Award 2018. The book was originally called No Sinecure, a title abandoned as no one under 35 in any class or group she joined knew what ‘sinecure’ meant (though some suggested it was apt, being about ‘sin’ in those who ‘cure!’) Two more books are underway. Anne has two grown up children and lives with her husband in North Ayrshire.

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