Val Adolph
Also writing as Valerie Fletcher Adolph
Bride Ship Three
The year is 1862, and the Fraser River Gold Rush is at its height. Miners dominate the little town of New Derby, eagerly awaiting the arrival of bride ships from England.
Scared, but eager for a new life, three very different young women step from a bride ship onto the rough shores of British Columbia. Elinor, the pampered adopted child of an elderly aristocrat, wants to escape her strict aunt and the stifling prospect of marriage, but her elegant manners are no preparation for the realities of frontier living. Rosie, a streetwise prostitute since childhood, chose an uncertain future over prison and the workhouse. Janet left the poverty of London, longing for a home and a husband.
They have formed an unlikely friendship during the hellish voyage. That friendship will be severely tested as they face discrimination, abuse, unlikely success, the possibility of love…and the threat of deportation. Will they be strong enough to survive in this rough new land, a land of gold miners, riverboats—and men unused to dealing with women who stand alone and face them as equals?
Growing Older BETTER will help you put life in your years. Written for people who realize they are growing older, it helps them do it well. They don’t want to blunder along, they want to treat it like a job or profession at which they are competent and respected.
OLD IS LIKE BEAUTY, IT”S IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. Just as you might ask “Do these pants make me look fat?” ask yourself “Does doing this make me look old?”
Let’s say good-bye to our age, and age-ism. Let’s start to roll back our oldness. We are not going to look for youth (been there, done that). We’re going to discover agelessness. We are vintage, very fine vintage. We are chronologically gifted.
Let’s find a way to having you look and feel better every day. We CAN change our oldness –because oldness is a state of mind. You don’t have to act and feel as old as your age. If you make the right choices you can easily look and act ten years younger than you are
Many of us in our later years have the opportunity to make choices that were not open to us before. For years we had to earn a living, raise a family, perhaps care for a spouse. Now it’s our turn. We can choose, we can make decisions, we can direct our life in the way we want it to go.
