LIFE CLASS, by Gilli Allan, is free for 3 days from 08/ 22/ 2013 until 08/24/2013
About art, life, love and learning lessons, Life Class follows four individuals (the sexual health professional, the sculptor, the stay-at-home housewife and the rent-boy) who meet once a week to draw the naked human figure.
They each come to realise it's not just the naked model they need to study and understand. They all have secrets hidden from the world and from themselves. They all need to uncover and confront the past before they can make sense of the present and navigate a new path into the future.
Ultimately LIFE CLASS is a story about love in its many guises
Karen Doering says:
[Gilli Allan's] characters are full of the rich personality so often found in small towns and she brings them to life with ease and finesse. The protagonists are realistic, warm and easy to relate to, making the story easy to get lost in. The narration does not interfere with the flow of the story keeping it on track and moving forward and the descriptions of village life and locale draw the reader in.Life Class is a moving story that will tug on the heartstrings of all but the most hardened readers, simply because it is a story of ordinary people who live ordinary lives, just as the rest of us do. How they deal with the situations many of us find ourselves in and the decisions they make is what sets this novel apart from many of its genre. Its warmth and realism bring an extra measure of both heart and life.