Bay Area's Own Peggy Kennedy To Be Featured In Marina Times Magazine

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 02, 2009 -
Peggy Kennedy, author of  (b)"Approaching Neverland: A Memoir Of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After"(/b), will be featured in the Marina Times Magazine November issue, available November 1, 2009.

Ms. Kennedy grew up in the Bay Area and attended Mills College where she received a degree in Asian Studies. She sold real estate for eight years before splitting with her husband and moving to San Francisco to start an events business that developed sponsorship for the Bay Bridge 50th Birthday Celebration, the Bay Bridge Permanent Lighting Campaign, In Concert Against AIDS, and the annual Chinese New Year Celebration. Compelled to write her family's unique and moving story, Ms. Kennedy began working on Approaching Neverland in 2004. The book was named a finalist in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and won first prize for non-fiction from the 2008 San Francisco Writer's Conference. She has been reunited with her husband for 19 years and lives in the East Bay with their younger son, chocolate lab, three horses and their older son's annoying cat.

(b)Approaching Neverland(/b) recounts Ms. Kennedy and her family's attempts to deal with their mother's mental illness during a time when it was little understood and even feared. With brutal honesty and surprising humor, she shares the turbulence of growing up under the shadow of their mother's illness, of being shuffled from one family member to the next, and of visiting her mother in the mental institution. As the years pass, the shadows of Barbara's challenges become a loving legacy in Peggy's quest to achieve happiness and fulfillment in her life.

A vivid, haunting portrayal of one woman's struggle to understand how the past fits in with her future, Approaching Neverland is as inspiring as it is beautifully written and will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

The author is available for interviews. For more information, please visit http://www.approachingneverland.com.