Christine Burns

Life by Satellite (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Christine and Linda both joined an online message board to discuss "Women Online" in 1993, neither were expecting a transatlantic "special relationship" to develop a correspondence which would see them sharing the highs and lows of their personal and professional lives.

Life by Satellite follows the development of their friendship online, from tentative beginnings to deeply personal crises and a secret which one of them doesn't know how to broach. Their weekly sometimes daily exchanges take you behind the veneer that we so often erect for strangers. Soon nothing was beyond limits, as the two women became best friends.

The correspondence unfolds over a 16 month period and presents a unique picture of life in 1993-94, before most people dreamed of owning a personal computer, let alone connecting it to the Internet. Think "84 Charing Cross Road" with modems. The pen friends are unselfconsciously witty, scathing, and (at times) heart breaking. Reading their messages is like opening your daughter's or wife's diary, and you won't want to put it down.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Christine Burns
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311846181
• Artikelnr.: 72372605

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINE BURNS LIVES in Manchester, England. For many years she was a professional IT and business consultant, working for a range of companies from global corporations to her own one-woman business. Her clients ranged from blue chip household name corporations to small businesses. She then consciously switched careers and built a second reputation as an equalities expert, in the course of which she was awarded an MBE by the Queen. Her interests range widely. Apart from being a published writer and poet, she has been a prolific blogger and podcast maker, a keen photographer and also likes to cycle for pleasure. Her publications have included the deeply technical and the mischievously trivial.