NEW RELEASE
A Summer Fling - Milly Johnson (2010)
Colleagues Grace, Anna, Dawn and Raychel may work together in the same department but they hardly know anything about each other's lives. Then their new boss Christie arrives in a brightly coloured suit, determined to forge a friendship with them. Fifty-something Grace is trapped in a marriage with Gordon - she fell in love with his kids, rather than him - and the last thing she wants to do is retire with him and head off in a caravan. Thirty-something Dawn is about to get married herself - to the rough Calum who comes with the big raucous family that Dawn doesn't have herself. Anna is about to turn 40 and her boyfriend has just left her for a much younger woman. She's let herself go but can she be saved by a strange man at the train station? And for twenty-something Raychel, she may be happily nesting with husband Ben but what secrets from her past have meant she pushes everyone else away? This story returns to Barnsley and we were promised a cameo from the Yorkshire Pudding Club women. (I missed it and had to flick back through the book to find Elizabeth, Helen and Janey.) It has a cast of well-drawn characters all ranged along the scale from good to evil and a storyline which combines romantic comedy with darker themes.
A Summer Fling - Milly Johnson
When power-dressing Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over their department, five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. But none of them could have predicted the fierce bond of friendship that her leadership would inspire. Anna, 39, is reeling from the loss of her fiance, who ran off with a much younger woman. So when a handsome, mysterious stranger takes an interest in her, she's not sure whether she can learn to trust again. Then there's Grace, trapped in a loveless marriage with a man she married because, unable to have children of her own, she fell in love with his motherless brood. Grace worries that Dawn is about to make the same mistake: engaged to love-rat Calum, is Dawn more interested in the security that comes with his tight-knit family? When a sexy rock singer catches her eye, will Dawn have the courage to follow her heart? And Raychel, with a loving husband, seems to be the happiest of the gang. But what dark secrets are lurking behind this perfect facade?