Product Description
Laura’s problems mount up as she looks for a job and somewhere to live. She hasn’t any references and her interview skills are poor. When she meets a man near the wishing well in the park, she finds he needs a housekeeper. It seems her wish for a job has been answered.
Kit Mallinder is a former journalist, who is convalescing after a car accident and he’s still finding it hard to come to terms with a slight disability that prevents him from running or leading an active life.
Laura has an uphill struggle to face as she starts to rebuild her life. Her husband’s actions have torn her family apart, and it is Laura who must summon up all her courage to resolve the problems facing herself and her children.
But Kit is always there to help her. The trouble is, can she trust any man now? Dare she embark on a new relationship?
From the Author
I'd had two story fragments for several years, but hadn't connected them into one story. I'd got Laura, hearing of her husband's death, finding it's left her with more problems than she'd expected. And then there was Kit, suddenly finding himself badly injured and facing a new sort of life, after an exciting life as a foreign correspondent.
One day I realised that Laura and Kit belonged together, and I immediately started 'seeing' scenes from the book. After that, you couldn't hold me back. My characters would wake me in the night to show me new scenes. I'd stop dead in the supermarket as it suddenly occurred to me what had to happen. Oh, the joy of it all!
Part-way through writing the book my husband and I went to England and we stayed in a bed and breakfast very similar to the one where Laura stays. In fact, the problems she encounters in the book are based on our real life experiences in a 'Faulty Towers' of a place.
Watch out for more modern novels. I've some other characters nagging at me . . .
Oh, and don't you just love the cover of the book, simple, elegant and exactly right, somehow? For those of you who didn't grow up in the north of England, the dandelion seedhead is familiarly called a 'dandelion clock' and you blow them to make wishes as the seeds float away.
Happy reading!
