Twelve Months by Steven Manchester is his heartwarming contemporary literary fiction novel about a man who apparently receives bad news about his expected future and is thus inspired to undertake the titular timespan in doing all the things he ever wanted to do with his remaining life and live it to the fullest despite its anticipated brevity, free courtesy of publisher Fiction Studio, which is run by ex-Big 5 editor Lou Aronica (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia).
This is B&N's Free Fridays selection, and apparently won a bunch of indie and smaller specialty awards, according to the full blurb. Anyway, you can read their
blogpost about it here, where there's apparently also a pre-order discount deal for the author's latest novel as well as their weekly freebie Nook app.
Currently free, probably just for the weekend @
B&N (also
UK).
Description
Don DiMarco has a very good life – a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately felled most, Don now wonders if he has time enough. Time enough to show his wife the romance he didn’t always lavish on her. Time enough to live out his most ambitious fantasies. Time enough to close the circle on some of his most aching unresolved relationships.
Summoning an inner strength he barely realized he possessed, Don sets off to prove that twelve months is time enough to live a life in full. A glorious celebration of each and every moment that we’re given here on Earth, as well as the eternal bonds that we all share, TWELVE MONTHS is a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit.