Out of the Blue: the perfect summer read a delightful and deliciously funny rom-com about secret (and not so secret!) desires
By (Author) Belinda Jones
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
14th September 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.92
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
287g
Twenty years ago Selena Smith saw Shirley Valentine and developed a chronic phobia of having a plate of chips and egg shoved in her lap by an ungrateful husband. Since then she's successfully avoided becoming one of suburbia's lost housewives by relentlessly travelling the world as an excursions rep on a luxury cruiseship.It's the perfect drudgery-free life! But with her 36th birthday approaching she finds herself experiencing a strange sensation - how can she be feeling homesick when she has no home And why has she agreed to spend a week on a Greek island with one of the ship's most notorious womanisers It looks like his officer and a gentleman routine could land her in deep tzatziki ...
This zippy tale is the perfect holiday read for anyone who likes their food tasty and their men even tastier * Cosmopolitan *
Perfect summer fun * Sun *
Top holiday reading! * Closer *
A wise and witty read about the secret desires within us * Marie Claire *
As essential as your SPF 15 * New Woman *
Belinda Jones's first paid job was on cult kiddy comic Postman Pat. Since then she has written for a multitude of magazines and newspapers including Sunday, Daily Express, Empire, FHM, heat, New Woman, and more! magazine where she was a staff writer for four years. Belinda's widely acclaimed first novel, Divas Las Vegas, was voted No. 2 in the New Woman Bloody Good Reads Awards in 2001 and On the Road to Mr Right - a non-fiction travelogue love quest - was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Out of the Blue is her seventh novel.