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Reviews:
A Highly Enjoyable Read: This book is quite simply a wonderful read. Rich descriptive writing coupled with a plot that keeps you interested the whole way through, and characters who you grow to care for very quickly. It's the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon read, fun and entertaining whilst at the same time offering you emotional moments and a twist or two to keep you guessing how it's all going to end. This book charmed me with it's warmth and sincerity.
Fun With A Deeper Message: The Aunt Sally Team is a laugh out loud book based on a very original idea. However, though the story certainly has its melodramatic moments and a lot of focus on light hearted relationships, love interest and humour, some of the issues tackled here are deep and not at all frivolous. The characters are well drawn and believable and the descriptions of Oxford and the surrounding countryside make you feel as if you are there.
A Real Page Turner:
I absolutely loved this book! It is a real page turner as you get wrapped up in the ever complicated and compelling lives of the lively cast of characters. There are light and dark shades to the book and many twists and turns which all add up to a beliveable and entertaining rollercoaster of a story. The Oxford setting is authentic as is the Aunt Sally game itself. If you want a feel good book with a realistic edge then this is for you.
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THE AUNT SALLY TEAM - A Soap Opera (book one of two in the Aunt Sally series):
When Bill Green puts a notice in a post office window in Oxford, he hopes for a group of intellectually stimulating companions with whom to share long summer evenings playing Aunt Sally, a quaint, traditional English pub game. Instead he gets a zany assortment of characters, not one of whom lives up to his preconceptions.
Diana craves excitement after ending a comfortable but unchallenging relationship. But is she heading for trouble when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Dante Blackthorn? He's handsome, charismatic and a feckless alcoholic and compulsive gambler, though his devil-may-care attitude and hazy sense of boundaries mask a sensitive and complex personality. His dissatisfied ex wife Beccy still hankers after him and his self-centred but vulnerable daughter Lucy hates the idea of a new woman coming into her Dad's life!
Best friends Lissa and Bethany are pagan teenagers who have their own coven but want to meet boys and have fun as well. Which is fine till Liss falls for someone and jeopardises the friendship.
Meanwhile Jason, a delinquent eighteen year old, has been forced to play Aunt Sally by his Dad and Uncle, who hope being part of the team will keep him out of trouble. When Lucy and Jason are attracted to each other, things get complicated, especially as Beth has set her sights on him as well.
Elderly widow Vera needs to put the past behind her. Will helping Jason fill a gap in her life and begin the process of healing?
And Rashi's family owns the George and Dragon pub where the Aunt Sally Team is based. He thinks his future is mapped out until he falls in love and is pulled between the culture he grew up in and the expectations of his Indian family.
With these and other characters thrown into the mix, the ensuing interactions and relationships become more and more entangled as the players progress through the season. From May Morning celebrations in Oxford to riotous Aunt Sally matches at idyllic Cotswold village pubs - with fun, drama, sex, romance and chaos along the way - by the end of the summer their lives will have been changed forever.
