Up Next: Beautiful but Unlikely
Julie Weigley's second novel serialized here on Substack
Up Next: Beautiful but Unlikely
The sun is warm; the cars race along the road; they don’t bother me. I’ve been reading the sky like the pages of a book. A story of love through the years and an ache in the soul.
A coming-of-age novel by Julie Weigley about finding your place in the world on your own terms in your own time. The way the measure of a man should be taken—by the money he makes or the leadership he exhibits. In both cases, courage is needed to cross boundaries and not be ruled by what others think.
Amy Templeton is a college graduate full of private passions, but in need of public markers. She stumbles her way from crisis to crisis in her journey, watching for her ‘knights, in the form of money or men.' Drawing on the legend of her beloved Birman cats, each of whom carries the soul of a priest released to heaven upon the feline’s death, she manages to change over time, in her own time, from a spectator at loose ends to the type of purposeful individual she could once only admire.
The title was inspired by the inside cover art of Radiohead’s EP Airbag/How Am I Driving? Donwood&Chocolate, 1998. ‘Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.’
Beautiful but Unlikely Table of Contents
Part I
Part II
28. Like India Ink 29. Stop Counting 30. Silent Sons 31. Mergings and Memories 32. No Spillway 33. Try Again 34. A Land of Grace Down Under 35. The Power of Feeling 36. Ghosts in the House 37. An Ace Up Her Sleeve 38. Extraordinary Ordinary 39. Supper’s Ready 40. The Boston Interview (In His Own Right) 41. Extraordinary Redux
Chapters from Beautiful but Unlikely will be posted weekly, every Friday, starting next week (1/21/22). To read The Water Is So Wide, click here. As always, thank you for your support.
Top Image: Franz Marc, Two Cats, Blue and Yellow, 1912. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons