Time Tells Tales A Novel In Five Tales Set in Ireland and England
in the early 1900's, covering a century, Time Tells Tales is a
Novel in five parts or 'Tales'. They explore the history of three
families; their interconnected lives are intricately woven together
by love, birth, death, and marriage. These lives are spiced up by
religion, revenge, scandal, abuse, heartache and spiritual
intervention. The five Tales are told from different perspectives
by the characters that drive this novel along to the surprising
conclusion, spreading across time, space and dimensions, hence the
title - Time Tells Tales. Theresa's Tale - Forbidden Love Theresa's
Tale is the third tale of this novel and tells of forbidden love.
She is the illegitimate daughter of Catherine and Alfred, raised by
catholic nuns in an orphanage in County Kerry where she was born,
cruelly taken from her mother before she had chance to even glimpse
her bastard child. Theresa is a troubled child who is bullied and
beaten by the Nuns who see her as a child that is no good, scarred
and useless. The local priest who is attached to the church and the
orphanage plays a big part in keeping this child from knowing her
heritage and her parents as it is only him, Joseph Bennett, who has
all the answers to all the secrets and lies. We follow Theresa as
she is moved from home to home coping with abuse, lack of love or
any true affection and generally having miserable existence.
Theresa runs away to England, to London, looking for her best
friend from her last 'home' David, and she is dragged into the
world of prostitution and drugs, her only way to survive on the
streets. A familiar face, her childhood abuser, rescues her Theresa
is pulled into another world of paedophilia and child slavery. She
slowly plans to exact her revenge on the devil incarnate while
helping as many of the kids that he rescues in the name of God, to
escape their horrible fate. Theresa does this with the help of
Brian and Mary, a brother and sister who befriend her. It is with
Brian she has her first glimpse of what true love could be, but she
worries that Brian will not be able to love her, an abused
physiologically damaged middle-aged woman with no experience of a
real loving relationship. In November 1999, just before the
millennium, Theresa's plans come to a violent conclusion but with
an unexpected twist. This Tale presents us with many more questions
and few answers to the ever more complicated lives of these
characters in Time Tells Tales. Will Theresa ever find out who her
real parents are? Why was she left in the hands of those cruel
nuns? What is true love and why would anyone want to love her? Will
Theresa ever escape the hands of her abuser and save her mortal
soul? Will Brian get passed her damaged persona and love her truly?
Will she live to find answers to these questions? These and many
more questions will be answered in this first novel by this new
author, Stephanie Fletcher. For sure, Time certainly has some Tales
to Tell.
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