“A promise between a poet and his goddess to meet at the Piazza del Plebiscito in thirty years’ time, Dangre coaxes us into the unapologetic world of a man fettered to his amorous past—a past lover, a past not easily forgotten, even with the incessant rivulet of time. Fragmented and wistful, almost ghostly in nature, the woman of a three-decade-old past begins to re-surface in the memory of Charles—father to two, husband to a passionate wife, and cardiologist to an even more passionate heart. The less-revealed plights of parenthood are put to the ultimate test in The Gap: a knowing-not child, a winter-vexed wife, and an erstwhile-poet father. Dangre’s witticisms and idiosyncratic insights into the stinging lees of love leave us questioning our own grasp on romance. Is the woman you loved all those years ago—so fervently, so reverently, like poetry itself—worth surmounting your marriage; the new life you erected and fine-tuned in the absence of the Amorous Winter? Dangre’s protagonist answers such an enquiry; and it is one you will wish to read for yourself.”

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Praise for The Gap (Tussenjaren) by Yannick Dangre

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"The emotional dichotomy that Jonas rigorously employs encapsulates the enchanting epidemic amidst her tale. Just a Little Witch, Mostly a Mom will take you cordially by the hand, walk you amongst the humour in her prose, weep with you alongside that humour, and concoct magic through the provocative emotions emitted from the reader. A memoir so full of candour, wit, and grit, you will not wish to place down the book and return to normal life. That tinge of magic—Jonas' prose—will follow you around as you go about daily tasks, for there is a gleam in this writing that transcends the page alone: a passion to tell her tale."

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Advance Praise for Just a Little Witch, Mostly a Mom by Diana Jonas