New Novel 'Moving On' release on the 4th September!

Moving is so much more than moving.

If you are going to be in the area of Cheriton, Hampshire on Thursday morning the 4th September, do come along to The Cafe On The Green where I shall be holding the first book signing for my new book, 'Moving On.'

If you can't come along on that date, the next opportunity to have your copy signed  will be at  Alresford Library in the morning of  the 20th September.

This story is rather different from the last book. Whilst once again it is based on something that did really happen, I have allowed myself greater play with the story line than I did with 'Someday, Maybe.'  In 'Moving On', not only the characters and the settings are imaginary, but the storyline as it develops is imaginary too. In 'Someday, Maybe' the characters and the settings popped out of my mind but the story and the outcome were true.

 Are you selling your house? Have you rid yourself of all those favourite knick-knacks, painted everything a desirable shade of beige or grey, put on a continually brewing pot of fresh coffee and cleared the house of that clinging smell of damp dog? Well, you’ve seen the How-To-Sell-Your House programmes; you know how to do it. ‘Location, Location’, Escape to the Country’, Houses Down Under’, Fantasy Home by the Sea’... You must have seen some of them as well, those television shows in which a family purports to want to move house; anyway, you know the kind I mean. Judging by the number of such television programmes, we are all fascinated with other people’s houses - fascinated by our own houses, too; if we haven’t got one, we want one, and if we have one, we want a better one, or bigger one, or a smaller one, or an older one or a younger one or one with more storage or more garden or less garden or a conservatory or an extra bedroom - anyway, a different one.  Few of us are fortunate enough to be entirely satisfied with what we have.

 

Take Valerie Bryce, for instance. She’s the main character in my soon-to-be-released novel, ‘Moving On’. Valerie has found herself no longer entirely satisfied with the house she and her husband Andy have been living in for the last forty-odd years. She has been yearning for somewhere new. She has wanted to be nearer the family. She has just been wanting to move. She’s so thrilled when an opportunity do so arises, an opportunity which will satisfy all her wishes. Andy? Well, Andy has his reservations about moving, and the decision to move has taken a bit of getting to and she is worrying a bit about that, too, but even so!

She can't wait.