Hey guys, what’s up? Hope you are all fine. Today I come up with another blog tour for a book that tells you a beautiful tale of friendship, One Last Summer by Victoria Connelly. Here I am sharing the first chapter exclusively to my dear ones. Read! You will love it for sure. If you do, get a copy from Amazon.
TITLE: ONE LAST SUMMER
AUTHOR: VICTORIA CONNELLY
GENRE: CONTEMPORARY FICTION
BLURB:
They have the whole summer ahead of them. Is it enough to rekindle the friendship they once shared?
Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends—but her dream is bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s a chance to reconnect three lives that have drifted apart; on the other, she has a devastating secret to share that will change everything between them forever.
First to arrive is Audrey—the workaholic who’s heading for a heart attack unless she slows down and makes time for herself. Then Lisa, the happy-go-lucky flirt who’s always struggled to commit to anyone—or anything. Ever the optimist, can Harriet remind them of the joy in their lives and the importance of celebrating good friendship before it’s gone?
Through the highs and lows of a long, glorious summer, these three women will rediscover what it means to be there for each other—before they face the hardest of goodbyes.
EXCERPT:
CHAPTER – 1
Harrie could have sent an email. It would have been easier and instant. But how many people really give emails the attention they deserve, she asked herself? Today’s inboxes were always so full, flooded with rubbish and with so many things sent to the spam folder. She couldn’t risk her message getting lost and so she sent letters by recorded delivery – two handwritten letters to her two oldest and dearest friends, written in blue ink with her favourite fountain pen, which was shocked out of its retirement into gainful employment. And, oh, how very satisfying it was to see the letters forming on the creamy pages on her kitchen table, her thoughts forced to slow down so her pen could keep up.
She posted them on the second of January, during the post-Christmas slump when thoughts were longing to reach towards summer. Seven months’ notice would be enough, wouldn’t it? She hoped so. She wasn’t sure what she’d do if they said no or made some excuse not to come because the last thing she wanted to do was bribe her friends into coming by telling them the truth. She wasn’t ready to let them know the truth. Not yet. But, luckily, both Audrey and Lisa had said yes. Admittedly, Audrey had been reluctant to commit to the whole of the summer holidays but Harrie had been very persuasive, sending her pictures of the priory and reminding her that they hadn’t had a proper girls’ get-together in over six years. There’d been a few rushed dinners and weekend shopping trips, but it was a full six summers since their last girls’ holiday to Lanzarote to celebrate the year of their fortieth birthdays. They’d hired that funny little place on the hillside, Harrie remembered, with the dodgy balcony and the lizard that freaked Lisa out every time she went in the bathroom.
Six years, she thought. Where had that time gone? Well, she’d divorced Charles for one thing. They’d met at her first teaching job. He was the head of the maths department and she’d told him that she’d always hated figures and he’d made some wisecrack about liking hers. He’d then looked mortified in case she reported him to the headmaster and she’d left him to dangle in his own discomfort for a moment before laughing. He’d insisted on buying her a drink and that drink had led to dinner and, less than two years later, a wedding and a baby girl called Honor. But, somehow, at some time, they had fallen out of love and had merely been co-habiting. When they’d both come to the realisation, there were no arguments, no recriminations – just a polite packing of boxes and a rather sad goodbye. They’d managed to remain friends too, which pleased Harrie because Honor was close to her father.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Victoria Connelly studied English literature at Worcester University, got married in a medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales and now lives in rural Suffolk with her artist husband, a young springer spaniel and a flock of ex-battery hens.
She is the author of two bestselling series, Austen Addicts and The Book Lovers, as well as many other novels and novellas. Her first published novel, Flights of Angels, was made into a film in 2008 by Ziegler Films in Germany. The Runaway Actress was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy Novel award.
Ms Connelly loves books, films, walking, historic buildings and animals. If she isn’t at her keyboard writing, she can usually be found in her garden, with either a trowel in her hand or a hen on her lap.
Her website is www.victoriaconnelly.com where readers can download a free novella.
