Lisa’s Story by Vincent O'Sullivan
"Lisa's Story" is an excerpt of Vincent O'Sullivan's novel All This By Chance, focussing on Lisa and Fergus' stories which are inextricably linked, though they only spent a few years together in the 1960's.
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Lisa and Fergus's stories are inextricably linked after they meet in the 1960's.
Lisa and Fergus are still in Greece in the years immediately after the 1967 military coup.
Lisa has decided to leave Fergus and move on with the next phase of her life.
Lisa has received shattering news from home. How will she process this information and what will it drive her to do?
Lisa is undertaking a new and daunting venture, a venture which will prove to be an entirely life changing experience.
Lisa is gaining practical experience in a field hospital located deep in the African bush. Life in the "Compound" is very basic and far removed from anything she has previously experienced.
Lisa is daily faced with patients suffering from tropical diseases, this alongside the language barrier and tribal differences make for a challenging life.
Lisa finds the 'boy from the bush' drawn to her and the corpulent Father Declan to be good company but what of sinister Father Ambrose?
Lisa's mission is to get the 'the boy' out of the country and away from danger but to do so she has had to ask a favour of her old flame Fergus.
Fergus and Carol, enroute through southern Italy to rendevous with Lisa, are unaware of the danger that lies ahead.