The Labyrinth Year - Howard, Mari
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The Labyrinth Year takes place mainly in Oxford, UK, and follows on from Baby, Baby (first in the Mullins Family Saga series), though it can be read as a stand alone novel. Jenny Guthrie Mullins spends a year in self-discovery, feeling her career as a mother-in-science challenged by husband Max (now a GP), whose demanding fundamentalist birth family require loyalties she's not been raised with. Meanwhile her artist step-sister Daisy (Daze) turns up to stir the mix and hunt for her biological mother. It all looks like a hopeless maze: can it actually become a purposeful labyrinth? Mari Howard…mehr

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The Labyrinth Year takes place mainly in Oxford, UK, and follows on from Baby, Baby (first in the Mullins Family Saga series), though it can be read as a stand alone novel. Jenny Guthrie Mullins spends a year in self-discovery, feeling her career as a mother-in-science challenged by husband Max (now a GP), whose demanding fundamentalist birth family require loyalties she's not been raised with. Meanwhile her artist step-sister Daisy (Daze) turns up to stir the mix and hunt for her biological mother. It all looks like a hopeless maze: can it actually become a purposeful labyrinth? Mari Howard continues to use a snappy, economic style, and weave themes of today's cultural dilemmas and diversity, medical science, marriage, relationships, secular and faith beliefs, and the way we can twist them. She introduces the reader to the Mullinses' children, Alice and Zoe, while managing to avoid an over-cute portraiture of pre-schoolers or any sentimental piety at a Retreat Centre. Brief descriptive details reveal that she conjures these portraits from her familiar world. The action, when moving from the writer's home environment of Oxford, including its canal, Port Meadow, and the Perch Inn, takes us to Northumberland, West Cornwall, and a trip to Yosemite where Jenny has to take the place of her boss, and speak at a conference. 'Once again Mari is prepared to tackle complex subjects with clarity , sensitivity and courage,' Bridget Plass, author of just re-printed 'The Apple of his Eye', who with husband Adrian runs retreats known for their honesty, thoughtfulness, and wit.
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Autorenporträt
Mari Howard writes warm, thoughtful, thought-provoking novels at her home in Oxford, where she lives with her husband, and two cats as creative, funny, and tiresome as her three now-grown children. As a teenager she wrote and performed protest poems, and became interested in the rapid societal change around her. Her ambition was to study art, but at Newcastle University, Mari hung out with art and medical student friends while studying religion, the basis of traditional societies. She later studied social and political science at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, developing interests in women's social issues, the impact of the contraceptive pill, IVF, and equality. Her first published pieces were non-fiction for the 'liberal' faith-based social commentary magazine Third Way, and some short stories. Baby, Baby, her debut published novel, draws on continuing interest in genetic research, cultural differences, acceptance, and inclusion. Mari has appeared at Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival (2015, 2016), and twice on Oxfordshire Live reading from her work and discussing writing along with author Debbie Young. She has exhibited paintings at Oxford Art Weeks. Find out more at: www.hodgepublishing.com