NEW RELEASE
The Love Market - Carol Mason (2010)
Celine Lewis is at a crossroads in her life. She is married with a daughter and loves running her matchmaking service. But she feels something is missing. With husband Mike, the spark just isn't there and they decide to end their marriage. One day Celine receives an email from her first love, Patrick, whom she met at the Love Market in Sa Pa in Vietnam and had a great four-day love affair with him. Once they start talking about their lives and their past she starts to think that maybe they could have a future together. This is an absorbing read about ending a relationship and starting a new one. (CG)
Carol Mason's third book The Love Market is about the end of a marriage and the reappearance of a first love. Celine and Patrick had met on an around-the-world adventure, in Vietnam's Love Market - the mountain village square where lovers gather once a year to trade in the most unusual of commodities: their hearts. Over the course of just four days they fell in love. Then Patrick went back to his life, and Celine came home, and met and married Mike. Now three years after seeing Patrick quite by chance in London while celebrating her 10th wedding anniversary, her marriage to Mike is over. Celine runs her own business, called The Love Market, a professional matchmaking service in northern England. Amid coping with the unanticipated heartbreak of her marriage ending, and the impact of it on her daughter, her sister is egging her on to look up Patrick on the internet. When, out of the blue Patrick emails, she's tempted to find out if all the old feelings can possibly still be there. Then Celine's thrown into a tailspin again when Mike has an unusual proposition for her, forcing her to question whether a divorce really means it's over. The Love Market is out in February.