Venus as She Ages (Boxed) 6-Novel Collection
Jacqueline Gay Walley’s VENUS AS SHE AGES COLLECTION (paperback)
Venus as She Ages takes an unflinching female artist from youth to her late sixties as she grows through love, mistakes, the vicissitudes of life, and commitment to her work. The Collection consists of six literary novels.
Book One: STRINGS ATTACHED -A girl raised solely by her British renegade father grows to find marriage difficult, knowing nothing of normalcy. (Second Edition, for the first time in paperback, ebook, and audiobook)
Book Two: TO ANY LENGTHS - A woman frightened of being co-opted in marriage visits a friend in prison who awakens her to her what freedom really is.
Book Three: PRISON SEX - This is a book about longing and how three people have to break free of their prisons, whether literal or metaphoric.
Book Four: THE BED YOU LIE IN - Two adult children of holocaust survivors work out their family pain when one seemingly betrays the other.
Book Five: WRITE, SHE SAID - Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys come back to life to help a hapless modern day writer rewrite herself in love and in being an artist.
Book Six: MAGNETISM - An older woman on a quest to desire be desired.
Jacqueline Gay Walley, under the pen name, Gay Walley, is a writer of many works of fiction, screenwriter for the films The Unattainable Story and Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Longing to be Found. Her play, Love Genius and a Walk, was nominated for 6 awards at the Midtown Play Festival, NYC, including best playwright. She lives in NYC and ghostwrites, edits and teaches.
ISBN# 978-1-955314-16-9
"The author's memorable style and strong character development weave a heartfelt story that will be remembered by all readers." – Library Journal
"Walley knows her territory. She knows alcoholics; she knows how difficult it is to love, and endure love, after a broken childhood. In the end what stays with the reader is the loyalty of the damaged child to the equally damaged parent." – Margaret Diehl, The New York Times Book Review
"An intelligent and uncommonly sensitive first novel describing a young woman's slow and painful coming of age... a quiet and unassuming debut all the more moving for its modesty." – Kirkus
"An engaging and persuasive novel, a difficult life shaped into a configuration of wisdom and grace. Gay Walley is a writer of uncommon perception and extraordinary poise. Her gift for maintaining perfect balance between delicacy and depth will take the reader's breath away." – Susan Dodd Author of The Mourner's Bench and O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella