Anyone who’s poured their heart and soul into writing a book will know what a nerve-racking experience it is. Months, sometimes years, in gestation then the bloody thing is born and sent out into a cruel, unforgiving world to sink or swim. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Booker prize contender or a scribe on the Mills and Boon production line, your labour of love will have you biting your nails until they bleed. I know. Mine are already bruised and bloodied.
There are two new books with an expat twist that have caught my fancy recently. They are both strong and confident swimmers.
Once in a while a chance encounter with a stranger can change things forever. My happy happenstance was crashing into Liam one wintry afternoon after work in a pub called 'A Tight Wide-open Space'. Matt Krause, a mighty Yankee vetpat from California has recently released A Tight Wide-open Space that tells the touching tale of his own chance meeting that led to love and a journey across an ocean to follow his heart. The story is much more than a boy-meets-girl penny romance, as sweet as that is. It’s also about his struggle to adapt to the strange ways of a strange faraway land. We can all identify with that one.
If you’d like to know more, take a look at Matt’s website. A Tight Wide-open Space is available in paperback or kindle at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
There are two new books with an expat twist that have caught my fancy recently. They are both strong and confident swimmers.
Sunshine Soup
Jo Parfitt runs Summertime Publishing, the company that is publishing Perking the Pansies. I’m in safe hands. Jo is an accomplished and successful author, mentor, journalist and publisher with 27 books and hundreds of articles under her belt. Jo has just released her debut novel, Sunshine Soup. Meet Maya, wife, mother of two and owner of a successful deli. She’s whisked away from her friends and a job she adores, to an uncertain life as an expat wife in Dubai. Next, transplant Maya into a fabulous new house, throw in an obsequious maid, send the teenage boys to school and the husband to work, add a potent mix of expat women and stir. What happens next is a colourful and poignant story of a woman who gradually grows into her strange new life but faces some difficult choices and uncomfortable questions along the way. Maya’s friendship with Barb, a colourful, experienced and seemingly confident expat wife, is a fascinating development. Things are not quite what they seem.
Sunshine Soup is available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
A Tight Wide-open Space
If you’d like to know more, take a look at Matt’s website. A Tight Wide-open Space is available in paperback or kindle at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
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