Synopsis
When her boyfriend's job takes him away to the Brazilian rain forest, Venetia Summers finds the trials and tribulations overwhelming as her life begins to unravel and she deals with suddenly single motherhood, children, ecentric new neighbors, and family. By the author of Hens Dancing. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Raffaella Barker is the author of Hens Dancing. She contributes regularly to Country Life, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Telegraph. She lives in Norfolk, England, with her husband and three children.
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For a year, Venetia Summers has been buffered from single motherhood by her boy-friend, David, but when work takes him to a Brazilian rain forest, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, e-mails languish unanswered, and long-distance love proves to be a bewildering experience. Meanwhile, Venetia s children and dogs run wilder than ever, brother Desmond s outrageous wedding takes over her home, and her relationship with an eccentric new neighbor gets off to an unfortunate start. Still, there are the everyday rewards, not least among them the dazzling beauty of the changing Norfolk seasons.
How is Venetia to cope alone with an army-style camping holiday, a foul-mouthed Amazonian parrot, and the demanding, if endearing, personalities of three exuberant children? Her burgeoning fashion career, creating outlandish garments for a London boutique, provides much-needed diversion. But when a moonlit walk takes an unexpected turn, she finds herself with a real dilemma on her hands.
With Summertime, Raffaella Barker, whom Publishers Weekly called a postmodern Erma Bombeck, gives us another sparkling comedy of English rural life, sure to delight fans of her first novel, Hens Dancing, and new readers alike.
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