Book 14 in the Fennel's Journal series.

The Pursuit of Life describes how I defined and pursued my dreams, often in the face of adversity, providing guidance and encouragement for those on similar paths. Ultimately it shows how the Fennel's Journal series can be used as a route map to a better quality and more fulfilling life.

Chapters

• Preface – A life retold.
• Art without Compromise - wise words from a famous marketer
• Becoming Me – Learning to write, to understand the message.
• The Origins of Fennel's Journal – A time of letters and distant friends.
• Friends of the Priory – No longer alone, there are 'people like us'.
• The Handwritten Letters – The earliest letters.
• The Friends become Twenty – How the letters, and friends, grew.
• A Monthly Letter – Writing, with purpose.
• The Encouragement of Others – How friendship helps us to keep our faith.
• Stop – Unplug – And Keep Going! – Resilience and self-belief during difficult times.
• What it Means to Me – Fennel, as you know him and I know him.
• Can You Hear Me? – learnings from a podcast
• A Writer's Life – How writing about life forces us to live.
• Solitude – Quiet time, alone with one's thoughts.
• Echoes and Reflections – The cycle of life, and self.
• Waiting – For what? The proactivity of self-belief.
• A New Day Rises – To begin something new.
• The Promise, Fulfilled –  Completing the journey.
• What Comes Next? – Pondering what will follow Fennel's Journal

Publication details

• Published by Fennel’s Priory.
• Written in 2018
• Full version in hardback and eBook – pending publication

Book specification

• Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm (8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 in)
• Pages: TBC
• Language: English
• Copyright © Fennel Hudson 2018
• Hardback ISBN 978-1-909947-64-1

Favourite quote from The Pursuit of Life

"We can hide, or we can strive – for a life of our making. With endless possibilities and opportunities to reach for our dreams, we owe it to ourselves to dream big and keep going, irrespective of what we might encounter. Sadly, the thing that most limits our success is not others, but ourselves. How strongly we believe, how confidently we act, how fiercely we react, how passionately we want, and how life-affirmingly compelled we are grow and blossom; that's how we keep going, no matter what, to be the person we want to be, living the life we deserve, in dreams that are real."

Reader testimonials

"A life retold, for our benefit. Fennel is to be congratulated for everything he’s achieved – on paper and in life.”

“It’s his life in the books, but it could so very easily be ours. Fennel has a way of seeing truth in the severe and the sublime, and bringing it home.”

“Can this really be the end? When dreams are real, we never wake from them. More books Fennel, please!”