This was my first published book (though the second I’d written with these characters). It’s about a very ordinary girl, Jane, who works in banking and marries a dealer.
Since I was working in dealing at the time I was following the advice on writing about what you know.
Jane thinks that her life will be complete when she gets married but she finds that things don’t always turn out the way she hoped.
Which I think is something that happens to all of us. Like the Chinese proverb ‘be careful what you wish for’ sometimes the thing we want the most is the thing that breaks our hearts!
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Chapter 1 APRIL 1981 (US NO. 7 WOMAN – John Lennon). My lover and I sat side by side on the white Caribbean sand. The setting sun shattered into a thousand glittering diamonds as it hit the turquoise blue of the sea, and the only sound was the rhythmic thud of the waves as they [...]
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Because the start of this novel is set back in 1981 I thought that including music from the eighties would be a good way to imprint the time in people’s minds (and memories). The eighties was my clubbing era too, so a lot of the songs had particular memories for me. In fact all through [...]
Read a little…
Chapter 1 APRIL 1981 (US NO. 7 WOMAN – John Lennon). My lover and I sat side by side on the white Caribbean sand. The setting sun shattered into a thousand glittering diamonds as it hit the turquoise blue of the sea, and the only sound was the rhythmic thud of the waves as they [...]
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Because the start of this novel is set back in 1981 I thought that including music from the eighties would be a good way to imprint the time in people’s minds (and memories). The eighties was my clubbing era too, so a lot of the songs had particular memories for me. In fact all through [...]
