NEW RELEASE
(Un)Like a Virgin - Lucy-Anne Holmes (2011)
Gracie is very focused on her career as an estate agent and has a great boyfriend, Danny, who she has been dating for 10 years. Then all of a sudden, things start to fall apart. She was first in line for a promotion at work but John, aka Posh Boy, gets it instead. She discovers her mother is deep in debt and is considering accepting a payout from a construction company to dig up her father's grave to make way for a road. Next Danny decides to take up a job in Canada. With all of this drama, Gracie knows she has to take drastic measures to fix her life and figure out not only what she is going to do but also end her mother's financial worries. That's when Gracie gets an opportunity to sing for Britain Sings with her old-time friend Anton. But she hasn't sang since her father died because that is what she did with him. Can Gracie overcome her fears and win Britain Sings? This is a moving story about a woman's life being turned upside down and her trying to find a way to fix her world as well as the people around her. (CG)
(Un)Like a Virgin - Lucy-Anne Holmes
You know that bit in The X Factor, when the singer tells everyone about the rocky road they travelled to pursue their dream? Well, that's Gracie Flowers' story. Gracie is very focused for a woman of almost 26. Her favourite book is The 5-Year Plan: Making the Most of Your Life. And her five-year plan is going very well. Great job, own flat, long-term boyfriend. Gracie is feeling good. That is, until she is usurped from her big promotion by a handsome, posh idiot, dumped by her boyfriend, then finds out he had the decency to accidentally impregnate her before he left. With her hormones going mental, Gracie finds herself stockpiling ice-cream, being sick on her shoes and having inappropriate thoughts about inappropriate men. But, at the same time, a dream she thought she'd buried 10 years ago starts to resurface. It reminds Gracie of the girl she used to be and the woman she hoped she'd become - and it stubbornly refuses to go away.