A One-Handed Novel [Paperback]

When Melanie Farrell visits the neurologist and is told she has multiple sclerosis she isn't surprised by the diagnosis. What does shock her is the related prognosis. It seems, based on a new study, that she only has six orgasms left. Six! Fortyish and single, Mel must decide how best to spend, save or at least not waste those precious orgasms.

Mel's plans to make the most of her sex life proves easier said than done when other realities of living with MS demand even more of her attention. Should she max out her credit card on an experimental procedure in Costa Rica? How can she work to financially support herself and get the care she needs when she can hardly leave the house? Where are her friends when she needs them? Her choices become even more confusing when one day she meets a man who loves butterflies and is good with his hands. Is this the man of her dreams? Is romance what she's really looking for right now? Or is she looking for something even more?

Funny, honest, heartbreaking and hopeful,A One-Handed Noveloffers a fresh take on independence and disability, ambition and love, and the communities that help us cope when our bodies and our desires are ever-changing.

Kim Clark is an author, poet and playwright and gimp. Clark has published short fiction—Attemptations(Caitlin Press)—and poetry—Middle Child of Summer(Leaf Press),Sit You Waiting(Caitlin Press), andDis ease and De sire, the M anu S cript(Lipstick Press)—as well as co-editing the red-head anthology,Canadian Ginger(Oolichan Books). She's also been a finalist in Theatre BC's Playwriting Competition and has a novella under option for a feature-length film. She lives in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.