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SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH GAIL GANNEY
THE BEAUTY IN UNRAVELLING An intimate memoir of loss, resilience and beginning again
THE GRACE IN STARTING OVER Have you ever had a moment when the ground shifted beneath you, and you realised that nothing would ever be the same again?
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Welcome to this edition of the PublishU Magazine featuring Gail Ganney and her moving memoir, The Beauty in Unravelling. Spanning a ten-year journey across continents, Gail reflects on leaving England as a young woman and returning older and wiser with her children. Written as a personal record for her family, her book candidly explores survival, growth and finding strength when life unravels. This special feature invites you to discover how digging deep through life's hardest moments can bring healing and hope for a new beginning. We are proud to share Gail's inspiring journey and honest perspective with you
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
FINDING THE BEAUTY IN HER UNRAVELLING
Interview with Gail Ganney, author of The Beauty in Unravelling. Gail, tell us a bit about you personally and professionally.
I'm Gail, a mother of four children and now grandmother to five grandchildren. I am in Brighton but also in London, lived here all my life. Professionally, I started as a civil engineer in London then got the travel itch and moved to Australia
Australia at twenty-two. That has taken me into many different areas over the years. And then the last 20 years, essentially, I've been more business-focused, working with small startup companies. When did you first think you might like to write a book?
I think probably everybody's got a story and people kept telling me, “Oh, you should write a book.” And the reason is that when
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I left England, sort of as a naive 22-year-old and returned definitely older and wiser, with children in tow and all kinds of challenges in my personal life. As I've gotten older and had a bit more time, one of my sons sat next to Matt Bird at lunch, and he told me about how interesting it was and said, “Mum, you should really do this.” That was when I thought maybe this is the right time to put some thoughts down. What is the heart of your book, The Beauty in Unravelling? I think everybody faces challenges in their lives and nobody can judge which are more difficult than others. It's all about us as individuals, how we are able to manage them, what our capacity for hurt and betrayal and all the rest of it is. I'm just an ordinary person who's gone through some trials and tribulations. So I would like to think that my book offers some hope and some inspiration. Things can look very bleak, but that's where you dig deep and learn life's hardest lessons. It's a book about growth and survival. Would you share when things were unravelling for you? I think I was about 30 years old, living in Puerto Rico with my husband
husband and pregnant with my third child. Life was throwing me a few curveballs. I was thinking that the challenges were because of X, Y, Z. It was a day when I understood they were because of A, B, C. Literally, the ground gave beneath me. I didn't cope terribly well in that moment. Then it was a case of rebuilding from there. So what is your hope for your book, Gail? I'm not doing this as a commercial venture, so to speak. I'm doing it as a personal project. Having said that, it would be quite fun to see it come to be a little series somewhere. I'm looking forward to getting feedback from different people. Also, to set a record for my children, I thought it would be really good for them to know me as a person and how all the decisions that I made, they could understand.
I would like to think that my book offers some hope and some inspiration. Gail Ganney Author of The Beauty in Unravelling
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