For Good or Worse

Genre
Detective

Concept
Mental illness is difficult to cope personally.
Marriage is not simple.
A successful marriage with mental illness is possible, difficult, but possible - with the help of God

Setting
Contemporary suburban location.
The start of the novel situated in London can bring disastrous moods.
As the novel moves to better times, the characters move to the south coast of Kent, more peaceful, yet still full of possibilitiies.

Theme
Coming of age, overcoming accusatory voices from the past, overcoming guilt, overcoming a precarious lifestyle, overcoming being shut in a mental hospitals

Must be done in three acts.

Impact
This piece should speak to the reader who is interested in internal work bringing a better personality.

Outcome
Shirley will come out of mental hospital as a refreshed person. She has learned to trust true love vs. Lust for riches and abusive sex.

Audience
middle aged, ill or not. (helpfull for carers, ill people as it offers hope of a good lifestyle).

Pitch
A lonely, schizophrenic girl discovers the value of true love in marriage and overcomes the fears of her past.

Notes
The Heroine will use flashbacks to bring her past to the front. This will distress her. (the this is typically what happens in scizophrenia; a patient hears disturbing voices and is distressed by them)her work is to overhelm her sense of worthlessness after an abusive unrequited relationship.
The timing fo this novel should be crisp: something like three years, not more.