An inner struggle, a harassing sister, an island where nobody can’t run away from, a girl living just in her own world. On an Island you’re forced to spend time with the people there, you don’t really have much of a choice. That’s the environment where Sam, protagonist of "If she had only said sorry", has grown up and it is where the relations with her own family got so hard.

This novel by Candy Adderley is the first attempt of a woman who puts the maximum of the passion and enthusiasm in her work. The atmosphere is gloomy and reflecting the inner mood of the protagonist, split between a need to be loved by her own family and the wish that her sister would just disappear and hassle her no more. "I still see her at times, you know – her words remembering who’s now gone – Fists raised to my face and her feet drawn back to kick me. Brown eyes flashing in anger, nostrils drawing in breath. How could I forget? But you mustn’t think me so innocent or ill deserving of the crime". An inner struggle within herself in which Sam doesn’t really know where to start to realise the reality of things.

"I’ve always been surrounded by books from I was little – says the author – and started keeping a journal from I was five years old, although I had to hide it from my sisters, as I got older. Writing means the world to me in every level and I can’t begin the express the depth of emotions I feel in being able to touch the world with my words."

The book expresses this hunger of emotions and feelings that probably is at the core of Candy’s writing. It is itself a sort of diary, where Sam speaks in first person telling what she really feels inside and how her personality reacts to the world.

The book is published by Grosvenor House Publishing and will be available soon on Amazon.