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Out Now –
Moondancing
by Celia J Anderson
(@celiaanderson1) #romance #contemporary #ebook
Blurb:
Together since their teens, Molly and
Jake have four children, a house in a sleepy village and jobs that bore them to
distraction. Their marriage is an accident waiting to happen. When Nick arrives
in Mayfield, young, disturbed and in desperate need of mother-love, Molly
doesn’t realise that he will be the catalyst that blows everything apart. Add a
headmaster whose wife doesn’t understand him and Molly’s unpredictable,
frustrated best friend to the mix, and the blue touch paper has been well and
truly lit.
Excerpt:
‘But who’s going to do our lunch if Mum’s staying in
bed?’ asks Max.
‘If people need things putting in
boxes, they’ll have to find them and put them in themselves for once,’ says
Jake through gritted teeth, as he tries to make toast, unload the dishwasher,
find clean socks for Hattie’s netball match and avoid the small pile of
cat-sick by the table leg. He sighs and mops up the squelchy mess on the floor
before Theo spreads it around the kitchen with her big boots.
It’s only the third day of term so
the foolproof system for school mornings hasn’t kicked in yet. Even the two
kittens look offended, meowing around Theo’s feet as she rifles through her
schoolbag for her lost homework.
Jake feels as if he’s dropped into
some alien, much less relaxing world. His early morning routine usually
involves sitting at the kitchen table drinking strong coffee and keeping some
kind of order while Molly dashes around serving up milky tea, bacon sandwiches,
and muesli. As she cling-films sandwiches, throws yogurts and chocolate
biscuits into plastic bags and sorts out last-minute crises, she talks him
through the day ahead. She likes him to know what’s going on.
Theo still hasn’t found her
homework. Jake and Molly’s eldest daughter is reasonably chilled, as a rule,
but today she’s in a filthy mood. Her form tutor has given a final warning that
if anyone else comes to school with purple streaks in their hair, he’ll make
them wear his grey woolly hat to lessons. Theo’s managed to cover the offending
bit of her fringe with black poster paint, having run out of dye, but she knows
if it rains things could go badly wrong.
Jake can hear Theo muttering as she
abandons the homework search and opens a tin of food for the yowling kittens,
gashing her finger in the process, and bleeding all over Sam’s newly-made tuna
sandwiches. She spits out all the rudest words she knows, and so does Sam,
which makes Hattie run round the table screaming, ‘He said the “F” word, Dad,
and she said “bugger”.’
Jake’s
patience, never his strong point, runs out. ‘At your age,’ he thunders, ‘me and
my little brother did all the chores for our mum before breakfast, went to school
without moaning, and then came back and did our paper rounds. We weren’t
spoiled like you lot – you’re all an absolute disgrace.’
Theo pulls herself up to her full
five feet four inches. She hasn’t been allowed to have a paper round due to
Molly’s fear of possible rapists and muggers on the loose. It’s a peaceful
village normally, but there’s a first for everything.
Author Bio:
Celia J
Anderson loves cake, champagne and her family, although not in that order.
Moondancing is the first book she ever completed but it needed a couple of
years relaxing in the cupboard before it was ready to be revamped to follow
Sweet Proposal, Little Boxes and Living the Dream out into the world.
One
eighth of the Romaniacs, to be found at https://theromaniacgroup.wordpress.com, Celia regularly blogs with this sparkling
group of writers who support each other through the journey to publishing and
beyond. Her ultimate aims are to spend less time on Facebook, have a few less
chins and to walk five miles a day - she feels the three may be connected...
If you missed her interview on the 15th click here.
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