Katy Carter is no domestic goddess — she's scatterbrained, needs a fire extinguisher at the ready when she's cooking, and falls off the diet wagon on a daily basis but as like everyone, she fantasizes of a romantic hero of her own. Katy has a job as a English teacher but she is interested in writ...
Well, this is exactly how I feel when I wake up the next morning. I have nowhere to go and nothing to do today. That makes a huge change!For a moment I’m a little disorientated to find myself back in my old single bed listening to the rumble of traffic outside as Taply-on-Thames wakes up for the ...
‘It’s going right through my head.’Nish looks up from her tea making. ‘No idea, but it’s a nice car.’‘Why do wankers always get the nice cars? And,’ Eve’s eyes narrow, ‘how come you’re taking two cups back to your room?’Nish flushes.‘You crafty cow!’ cries Eve. ‘You pulled! Who is he? Come on, yo...
James tends to race off to the golf course at some ungodly hour, which leaves me free to loll around in bed until lunchtime eating toast, drinking tea and reading trashy novels. Heaven! Then I usually potter round the flat and think about doing some housework before venturing into town and lettin...
It was all very well having an absolutely genius idea, but if every time you tried to get it up and running people wouldn’t co-operate then what was the point? Honestly, she could have screamed with annoyance. Normally she couldn’t move in Rock for practically tripping over Andi or Gemma or Cal, ...
By the time she’d managed to find her credit card, hidden by Cal in an attempt to stop them spending any more money until the overdraft was cleared, it had been almost half past two. Eventually, after ransacking the place, Gemma had found it inside the dusty grand piano in the drawing room that t...
Vicky says accusingly on Wednesday evening. She’s still draped in her Broom! Broom! sash from the latest promotion and glammed up like a skinny, aged version of Honey Boo Boo. She’s hardly been in the office for the past couple of weeks, being far too busy with her promotions, and has hardly s...
Never mind the temptation of Jeremy Kyle or Facebook; those I can handle. The possibility of treasure under my living room floor I simply can’t ignore.It’s going to drive me crazy. I have to know!It’s been four days since Derrick mentioned Cecily Greville’s life savings – four days during which I...
No expense was ever spared: champagne flowed faster than the River Wenn, the food was always exquisite and the hotel would be beautifully decorated. This was never truer than for the annual Christmas charity fundraiser, which was always held on the last Saturday in November. The big cedar trees o...