NEW RELEASE
The Au Pair - Janey Fraser (2012)
Corrywood is a small village but its inhabitants have big issues and the biggest of all is to find perfect au pairs who can look after their kids and give them time out. Paula's au pair is a nightmare, while recently widowed Mathew is tired of dealing with weirder-than-weird au pairs for his daughter. Jilly needs to support her husband and desperately needs a job. One morning while listening to her best friend Paula's child-care plight, Jilly comes up with the idea of opening her own au pair agency - she could work from home and still look after her own boys. After placing French girl Marie-Frances, who is more interested in finding her father than being an au pair, Jilly starts to think that her business might work but little does she know that the agency is just not a business that can be run from the dining table. This definitely has enough laugh-out-loud moments and the characters are realistic but the number of them made it tough at times to keep track of the story. (SS)
Janey Fraser's The Au Pair looks at what happens when an au pair takes over a family. The summary says: "Dawn needs someone to take her horrendous children off her hands. Paula is desperate for help so she can keep her sanity during the summer holidays. Matthew, whose wife died a year ago, is trying to get his life back on track, but with a small daughter to look after, he can't do it alone. And Jilly needs a job that she can do at home so she can look after her children. Setting up an au pair agency seems to be the perfect solution to everyone's problems. But is it? If Jilly thinks its difficult to juggle her children, the au pairs and the needs of the families she sends them to, it's nothing compared to the trouble that's caused when one of the au pair finally discovers the truth about the father she's been searching for." The Au Pair is out in July.