Publisher: Aria
Release date: 07/05/2020
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SYNOPSIS:
The four Sutherland sisters have all had very different paths in life, but one secret and a slighty tense production of Jesus Christ Superstar are about to bring them all back together again…
When the news that pop-superstar Lexia Sutherland is returning to Westenbury, not everyone is thrilled by the news – including Lexia. There are too many memories she doesn’t need to face – or need re-surfacing. Meanwhile, Juno Sutherland just wants a little peace and quiet.
As the local village doctor, she’s got her priorities in order; kids, job, husband, tenacious pony, a role in the village musical… So when the sexy new locum turns up – and steals her office – the last thing she needed was to be hit with rising temperatures and an over-active imagination.
Will these sisters be able to uncover the past, deal with the future and put on the performance of a lifetime?
Return to Westenbury this spring and find out.
EXTRACT:
Once surgery was
over for the day, Juno went straight round to her eldest sister, Ariadne’s,
place. She didn’t think she’d be at home but, by taking the long way round,
skirting the village of Westenbury itself rather than passing through it, she
knew she could lean out of the car window – somewhat precariously, it was true
– to look up the end of her road and see if her car was parked outside her
house. Unusually, it was. Juno skidded on the wet slushy stuff that had
accumulated at the end of Ariadne’s cul-de-sac and, reversing, manoeuvred her
Mini down towards her sister’s trusty old Fiesta.
‘How come you’re home?’ Juno called
as she pushed open Ariadne’s front door before heading through to the sitting
room.
Ariadne was, as she expected, sitting
in the corner of the room at her desk, marking books.
‘Got a cold,’ she sniffed, expending
any remaining surplus energy onto myriad huge purple ticks on the exercise book
in front of her. ‘Feel bloody awful; I had a free period at the end of the afternoon
so came home early.’
‘I’ll keep my distance then.’ Juno
frowned, backing away from her and shifting a pile of books from the large
winged armchair onto the floor before sitting down heavily and closing her eyes
for a few seconds.
‘I assume you don’t say that to your
patients?’ Ariadne asked rhetorically before sneezing and blowing her nose
loudly. ‘What’s up? Had a hard day?’ She closed the book in which she’d written
crossly: See me, Chloe.
Listerine is a mouthwash designed to combat bad breath. It was not the name of
the woman whose mission it was to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men
their sexual favours. That, Chloe, was Lysistrata!
‘Jesus,’ Ariadne went on, not at all
interested in whether Juno had had a good, bad or totally indifferent day, ‘I
don’t know why I bother. Do I teach these feckless sixth-formers anything?’ She
threw the book towards the pile of marked books, missing its target – Ariadne
was always more scholarly than athletic – and got up from her chair, reaching
for another tissue and wrapping her cardigan more closely around her waist. ‘I
long for sunshine and places to explore, not day after day with arrogant girls
who’ve only opted for Classics because they think it must be easier than Maths
or Physics. All they’re interested in is Love Island, getting pissed and how many
boys they can fellate while still hanging on to their virginity.’
‘Blimey, if I wasn’t depressed
before, I am now,’ Juno tutted. ‘Shall I go out and come back in again and we
can start over?’
‘Start over?’ Ariadne frowned. ‘You’re
obviously watching too much American TV, Juno. The phrase, here in good old
Yorkshire, is “start again”.’
‘Oh, for God’s sake, Ariadne, you
are in a sodding mood, aren’t you? I came here to tell you something. Something
good. Well, I think it is…’ She trailed off.
‘About Lexia, you mean?’
‘Oh, you know?’ Juno stared at
Ariadne.
‘Saw the front page of the Midhope Examiner when
I stopped for petrol on my way home,’ she said shortly. ‘First time I’ve ever
bought it, I think.’ Ariadne indicated, with a nod of her head, the local paper
folded neatly next to the morning’s edition of The Guardian on the top of her piano at
the back of the room. ‘Bit of an amazing coincidence that footballer husband of
hers suddenly ends up here in Midhope, don’t you think? You know, back to
Lexia’s hometown?’
About the author:
Julie
Houston is the author of THE ONE SAVING GRACE, GOODNESS, GRACE AND ME and
LOOKING FOR LUCY, a Kindle top 100 general bestseller and a Kindle #1
bestseller. She is married, with two teenage children and a mad cockerpoo and,
like her heroine, lives in a West Yorkshire village. She is also a teacher and
a magistrate.
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