A romantic comedy about a 50 yr old woman back on the dating scene.Sally Lightfoot is a backing singer and mum who's seen the raunchier side life. After the sudden death of her music producer husband, her life running their recording studio in the leafy outer-suburbs of London implodes.
Her skills at harmonising threaten to become her undoing. Tempted to age gracefully with added chocolate, Sally dismisses her feisty rock chick friend Ramone's advice to get herself out there again and lose her 'wididity' her born-again virginity, before it's too late. The thought of dating again is gross.
Why would she want all that fuss, bother and trauma that her daughter Ami was going through? With added flabby bits?
Egged on by Ramone's wididity challenge and insistence that if she wants something she has to go for it, Sally finally plucks up courage to leave her isolated comfort zone to face the possibility of humiliation and rejection square on.
Readers comment:
"I devoured this book. Last night I finished it before my cats got fed." US Amazon ***** LIZZYTISH
"A beautiful life interrupted then healed by the songs of Leonard Cohen." BLOGCRITICS
"One minute this book has the reader laughing out loud, the next we are sobbing. Romantic, hilarious, engaging and highly perceptive, this is a finely written novel that deserves to be a bestseller." JACQUI LOFTHOUSE, The Writing Coach
"I would recommend this book for reading and book clubs. It is insightful and delightful, full of thoughtful dialogue and exceptional clarity. Sally feels real, like a neighbor or a friend and that makes the story take on a presence of its own."
LESLIE WRIGHT, The Huffington Post, Blogcritics, Seattlepi, Tic Toc.
About the Author:
Biography
I am a novelist and journalist. For the past 6 years I have written regularly for The Guardian as their Weekend Magazine Cleaning Guru, answering readers' impossible cleaning and stains problems.
I've published 3 Novels: Baby on Board (Piatkus 2003), Keeping Mum (Piatkus 2004) and, my most recent, Ten Good Reasons To Lie About Your Age (blackbirdebooks) about a widow back on the dating scene challenged to lose her 'wididity', her born-again virginity. I've also published several stain removal guides, the latest being a comprehensive collection of my columns, full of eco-living top tips that… Read moreSupporting New Authors:
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Thank you dropping by, please leave a comment. Patti
Hi Patti,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for featuring my book, it's looking great here. Love your hummingbirds!
You are very welcome Stephanie. Wishing you much success. Patti
ReplyDeleteWhere do you call home?
ReplyDeleteDo you have plans for a new book?
What inspired you to write your first book?
How did you come up with the title and cover design?
Have you based any of your characters on someone you know, or real events in your own life?
What books have most influenced your writing most and why?
What book are you reading now?
Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest and why?
Is there anything you would change in your last book and why?
What is your biggest challenge when it comes to your writing?
Who designed the covers?
Do you have a book trailer?
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Where can your readers follow you?
Where do you call home? Kensington, London. We live next door to a very famous author. I've never met her. That's London for you.
ReplyDeleteDo you have plans for a new book? Several - a half-written children's fantasy book that needs complete restructuring and another women's fiction comedy about a group of women living in Kensington. It's beautiful, but strange.
What inspired you to write your first book? I was writing lots of short stories on a writing course I attended every week for 3 years. Bridget Jones Diary inspired me to write my first novel, Baby on Board (Piatkus), which was "Bridget Jones has a baby". Like many, many others I thought I WAS Bridget.
How did you come up with the title and cover design? A brainstorming session at my writing group.
Have you based any of your characters on someone you know, or real events in your own life?
Not much with this one, the gay couple on the island are based on a couple I met on the Greek island of Mykonos years ago. 'Barry' was a sarong dealer who lived half the year in Bali. Bizarrely I went to Bali years later and bumped into him at an All White party up in the hills. Then I bumped into him on a beach a few days later.
What books have most influenced your writing most and why? Too many, I read, used to read so much. Of the more contemporary authors, Marian Keyes for her simplicity, depth and humour. Intelligent and fun is what I'm aiming at.
What book are you reading now? I'm reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and totally loving it.
Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest and why? Jennifer Egan. The perspectives are incredible.
Is there anything you would change in your last book and why? Well, as it's digital, I have. An author friend pointed out a couple of places that stopped her believing in the story, tiny things but they make all the difference. So I changed those. Just recently I changed the slang word 'butters' for 'peng'. Butters is bad, I thought it was good. Peng is good.
What is your biggest challenge when it comes to your writing? Finding the time.
Who designed the covers? Fena Lee, a teenager who lives in Singapore!
Do you have a book trailer? No.
Do you have any advice for other writers? Jenny Colgan's: read lots, write lots, repeat. Get lucky. Stay lucky.
Where can your readers follow you? my blog is Confessions of An Author - www.fessingauthor.blogspot.com. Lots of misery early on. Thankfully that's all changed thanks to digital.
Hi Stephanie, I will get this posted up in the next day or so for you. Will let you know via comments. Talk again soon. Patti
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