{"id":7908,"date":"2019-11-09T06:09:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T14:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T02:05:33","slug":"guest-post-liz-talley-author-of-room-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/09\/guest-post-liz-talley-author-of-room-to-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Liz Talley author of Room to Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Room to Breathe<\/em> is a story of two southern women at very different stages in their lives who are experiencing the same sense of “starting over.\u201d Daphne Witt is weeks from turning forty, in a career that she never expected, and ready to start dating after a divorce. Her daughter Ellery is essentially untested in the world. Young, beautiful, accustomed to everything going her way, Ellery finds herself with a less than dazzling job, a distracted fianc\u00e9 and, for the first time ever, doubts about who she is and where she\u2019s going. When the novel begins, we find Daphne dealing with an awakened libido she thought long dead, and Ellery struggling to accept working for her mother and living with a fianc\u00e9 who has little time for her. Both women redirect their dissatisfaction toward secret desires – Daphne for a much younger contractor, and Ellery for a secret email pal who thinks she\u2019s her mother. Like the vines of a vineyard, things get tangled quickly by decisions that not only threaten the fragile mother-daughter relationship, but each woman’s future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I really like about Daphne is her self-awareness. She\u2019s been content to stand in the wings while everyone else in her life commandeered the spotlight, but now she\u2019s ready to take her turn on the stage. She\u2019s bumbled into a dream she never knew existed as a children\u2019s author, and she\u2019s really good at what she does and becomes an overnight success. But her family, even her ex-husband, can\u2019t seem to let go of the woman she once was. They want the old Daphne, the one who put everyone else before herself. I intentionally gave Daphne a secret crush on a younger man and had her pay attention to her sexuality. Women of a certain age are often set aside, as if their \u201c sexiness\u201d has a shelf life. I wanted Daphne awakened to the fact that as a woman entering her forties, she still needed intimacy and affection. I wanted her to struggle with the guilt, be tempted, and have a little fun with someone\u2026young enough to date her daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ellery is the girl I once was. I remember being invincible, tossing my curls over my shoulder as a flounced around in my cheerleading skirt. The world was about me and what I wanted, what I thought I deserved. I wasn\u2019t a bad person, but I do remember my brother once bringing my requested shoes on a throw pillow, bowing, and saying \u201cyour slippers, my lady.\u201d I led a charmed life\u2026until life punched me in the face. It has a tendency to do that in your mid-twenties when you find out (gasp!) the world doesn\u2019t revolve around you. So I wanted to take a princess, toss her in the mud, and see what happened. Ellery isn\u2019t always likable, but she\u2019s authentic. And by the end of the book, she sees her mother as a person and not just her mother. Both Ellery and Daphne have a big growth arc in this book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Room to Breathe<\/em> has secrets, twists, bad decisions, surprises, and angst, yet it also has humor, heat, and heart tugs. I love the guys in the book – Clay (the hot contractor), Gage (Ellery\u2019s surprise crush) and Evan (the vineyard owner) and I really like the interactions between Ellery and Daphne. I think readers will recognize themselves most in Daphne, but they\u2019ll also remember how hard it is standing on one\u2019s own two feet as Ellery must do. I\u2019m proud of this book about letting go and taking the lemons that life hands you, tossing them, and pouring a glass of wine. Cheers to all the women who aren\u2019t afraid to start over and create their own new paths!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Liz Talley:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A finalist for both the Romance Writers of America\u2019s prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards, Liz Talley has found a home writing heartwarming contemporary romance. Her stories are set in the South, where the tea is sweet, the summers are hot, and the porches are welcoming. She lives in North Louisiana with her childhood sweetheart, two handsome children, three dogs, and a naughty kitty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Liz Talley: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: Room To Breathe
Author: Liz Talley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 1, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a good part of Daphne Witt\u2019s life, she was a supportive wife and dutiful mother. Now that she\u2019s divorced and her daughter, Ellery, is all grown up, Daphne\u2019s celebrating the best part of her life, a successful career, and a flirtation with an attentive hunk fifteen years her junior . . . who happens to be her daughter\u2019s ex-boyfriend.

Ellery is starting over, too. She\u2019s fresh out of college. Her job prospects are dim. And to support her fianc\u00e9 in med school, she\u2019s returned home as her mother\u2019s new assistant. Ellery never expected her own life plan to take such a detour. With no outlet for her frustration, she lets an online flirtation go a little too far, especially considering her pen pal thinks he\u2019s corresponding with her mother.

As love lives tangle, secrets spill, and indiscretions are betrayed, mother and daughter will have a lot to learn\u2014not only about the mistakes they\u2019ve made but also about the men in their lives and the women they are each hoping to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Room to Breathe is a story of two southern women at very different stages in their lives who are experiencing the same sense of “starting over.\u201d Daphne Witt is weeks from turning forty, in a career that she never expected, and ready to start dating after a divorce. 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