Fine Line Is Not Just a Wrinkle

By: Antonia Woodward

Narrated by: Barbara Rich

James Williams has it all, apart from the need to have a baby. His investment banking job is challenging and lucrative. His home is practically a palace, and he’s married to a gorgeous woman half his age. The only problem James keeps failing to address is that his wife Zoe can't stop spending money. Sneaking shopping bags into the house and hiding receipts, Zoe is driving the household into poverty.

Indeed, James is so overwhelmed with the stress of shouldering Zoe's shopping expenses that when therapy and discipline have failed to resolve the issue, James starts embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company that helped him build his career in Investment banking betraying his mentor, Donald Lucas, a young investor who is eager to take James's portfolio has other plans.

Finally caught by investigators, James tries to end his life several times as his sister, friends, healthcare professionals, and solicitor try to help him. Zoe has other plans, and it is not about having a baby that James desperately needs or supporting James at his most vulnerable.

In the end, James can eventually see clearly, and things have to change. How would Zoe react to the changes? After all, there is a fine line between mental health and mental illness.

©2021 Antonia Eriyo-Woodward (P)2021 Antonia Eriyo-Woodward