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Title: A Year of Second Chances
Author: Kendra Smith Author
Genre: Literary Fiction
Pub. Date: June 20, 2019
Publisher: Aria Fiction
Hosted: Head of Zeus Books
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Blurb ↓
Three women. Three very different lives. One life changing adventure.
Charlie is a single mum unlucky in life. Her multiple jobs make barely enough to feed the family cat, never mind being able to give her son the life he deserves. So when an opportunity to make a lot of cash comes along, she simply has to take it.
Suzie has always wanted to be a mother. But fate has been cruel and now time is running out. Soon her final frozen egg will be destroyed and her last chance of having a baby will go with it. With her husband resolved to their childless life Suzie takes matters into her own hands.
Dawn is about to turn fifty and seems to have misplaced her mojo along with the car keys. But with an interfering mother-in-law and a gaggle of judgemental mums at her children’s school, it’s proving harder to find than a decent fitting bra. Especially after a series of highly embarrassing incidents...
Over the course of a year three lives are about to collide and as they do be prepared to laugh, cry and fall in love with these women as they discover how life can give you a second chance.
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4
Charlie
‘For fuck’s sake, get your hands off me!’
There are beads of sweat along the top of his lip and I can smell beer on his breath. I only opened the door a tiny bit and he barged right past me into the hallway.
‘You bloody told me you could pay me this week, you bitch!’
‘Look, Paul,’ I say, searching around the room for my phone. Where is it? I need to call Tyler, to make up a reason for him not to come straight back. I don’t want him to see this – again – he’s seen enough of Paul and his merry band of ‘associates’ over the last few years. The cat screeches past us in the hall and Paul sticks his foot out to kick it.
That’s it. I want him out of here. He is standing with his hands on his hips in front of me. I notice the mud on his shoes has left a mark in the hall. He is wearing an old leather jacket, soggy from the rain outside and torn at the sleeve. His paunch is visible under a mossy green T-shirt and his jeans are ripped at the knee like some teenager – what a joke, he must be nearly sixty.
‘Did you hear me?’
I look up at him. My skin crawls as I study his beady brown eyes, boring into me. The rain is pelting down outside, I can hear it on the windows. It’s as if it’s trying to get into the house, the steady downpour against the glass panes. Drum, drum, drum.
‘I will get you the money, I promise. I’ve got a plan.’
‘What bloody plan?’ he sneers. The look of contempt he gives me makes me shudder. He lifts his hand and I duck and put my hands protectively above my head.
He catches my wrist.
‘Ow!’
‘Look, Charlie, Gloria said you’d be good to pay me back – that was twenty-four months ago – I’ve been waiting a long time…’
‘Yes, and you keep racking on interest, you bastard! It’s hard enough for me to keep up with the payments with my part-time jobs.’ I twist my wrist around in his hand. He tightens his grip.
‘I don’t give a toss about your part-time jobs – you owe me.’
As he grabs my shoulder with his other hand, I yank my wrist out of his grip.
‘Don’t touch me again!’ I scream. ‘I’m—’
‘What?’ he hisses. ‘Gonna call the police – ha! Let’s see what they think about that! I might just tell them when they get here you’re in arrears with your rent – don’t forget me and your landlord are quite pally… In fact—’ he winks at me ‘—I’ve thought of another way you could pay me back.’
I stop dead. He reaches over and very slowly traces a line from my cheek, all the way down my throat and towards my breasts. I wince. Suddenly, Tyler opens the front door as Paul’s dirty fingers start to travel further down.
Author Bio ↓
Kendra Smith has been a journalist, wife, mother, aerobics teacher, qualified diver and very bad cake baker. She started her career in Sydney selling advertising space but quickly made the leap to editorial - and went on to work on several women’s magazines in both Sydney and London. With dual Australian-British nationality, she currently lives in Surrey with her husband and three children.
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