Friday, 24 June 2016
Learning To Love by Sheryl Browne
Release Date: 14th June 2016
Publisher: Choc Lit
Publisher: Choc Lit
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Andrea is a strong character who is doing what lots of women do and try to multi-task to superhuman levels! This book contains that magic mix of ingredients for a good rom-com - fun, laughter, romance, love, passion and that feel good factor! Plus heaps of real life thrown in! I couldn't help but swoon after the hunky doctor and some parts of the book left my pulse racing just a little! This book will have you smiling, grinning big soppy grins, going all mushy, gasping and laughing your socks off! It'll also leave you feeling as desperate and frustrated as Andrea. Loved it! I'd highly recommend this book! Well done Sheryl Browne..............again!
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Sometimes help comes from the most unlikely
places …
Living in a small village like Hibberton, it’s expected
that your neighbours help you in a time of need. But when Andrea Kelly’s house
burns down, taking all her earthly possessions with it, it’s the distant and
aloof Doctor David Adams – the person she would least expect – who opens his
door not just to her, but to her three kids and slightly dotty elderly mother
as well.
Andrea needs all the help she can get, dealing with
aftermath of the fire and in the suspicious absence of her husband, Jonathan.
But, as she gets to know David and his troubled son, Jake, she begins to
realise that maybe they need her help as much as she needs theirs …
Previously released by the author.
Revised, edited and republished by Choc Lit in June 2016.
EXCERPT
I don’t know how you feel, David, do I? I don’t know you,
other than what you’ve told me.’
David looked at her levelly. ‘The truth.’
‘The truth?’ Andrea was really incredulous now. ‘Apart from
the one or two inconsequential little things you forgot to tell me? Or was it
more than that, David? Three? Four? A hundred?’
‘Two! Twice. Bloody hell, Andrea …’
And that made it all right? She forced back the tears she
desperately didn’t want to cry in front of him, again. ‘And I thought Jonathan
was being devious. You take the biscuit, David, you really do.’ Shaking her
head, Andrea moved to walk past him.
‘I’m nothing like Jonathan, Andrea,’ David said quietly. ‘I
care about you.’
Andrea turned back. ‘And Jonathan doesn’t?’ She knew in her
heart that her relationship had been floundering long before the fire that had
blown her world apart, before David … She didn’t believe Jonathan’s tale about
why he hadn’t been able to contact her any more than his claim to have found
Dougal in the park. He’d been piling lie on top of lie since that dreadful
night, and she would tackle him. Right now, though, she was more interested in
what lies this man might concoct to extract himself from his mess.
‘Did he tell you the assessors had been?’
‘I haven’t had a chance to speak to him yet.’ Andrea walked
on.
‘He’s hiding something, Andrea,’ David called after her.
‘I’m not sure what, but the fire, his preoccupation with Dee’s mental state,
his story … It just doesn’t add up.’
Disbelieving, Andrea whirled around. ‘You’ll stop at
nothing, will you? You paint yourself as a poor wounded hero, torn apart by
grief and guilt and the havoc you created,
and then you have the nerve to point out other people’s failings? Why?’
‘Andrea, I … I don’t know.’ David shrugged hopelessly. ‘I
just want you to be careful, that’s—’
‘I mean, I’m no great catch, am I?’ Andrea went on, her
fury growing. ‘Was what just happened between us another one of your mistakes,
is that it?’
‘No!’ David fixed angry eyes on hers. ‘Dammit, Andrea I do
care about you. I—’
‘I’m going.’ Andrea turned away.
‘Andrea, don’t.’ David caught her arm. ‘Please. The kids …’
‘Don’t you dare, David,’ Andrea warned him angrily. ‘Don’t
you dare try to manipulate me through my children!’
‘They’re getting ready for bed, Andrea. There’s no point in
upsetting them tonight.’
‘Me upsetting them?’ Andrea was flabbergasted.
‘Jake …’ David swallowed. ‘Give me a chance to speak to
him, Andrea. Please, I’m begging you.’
Andrea felt her heart break inside her afresh, for Jake,
for David, too, who was going to have to live with the devastating consequences
of his actions; for Sally, who would surely need her friendship now, but which
this man had made impossible. For herself.
‘Stay,’ David implored. ‘Please? For tonight, at least.’
Andrea studied his face, saw the desperation in his eyes;
eyes where so many conflicting emotions played out. How little did she really
know him? She could have loved him. Did, still. Yet hated him.
‘For Jake’s sake,’ she said, dropping her gaze to his hand
still on her arm.
Relief flooding his face, David released his hold. ‘Thank
you,’ he said, closing his eyes.
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Doctor David Adams has moved into the quiet village of Hibberton
with his young son. He appears to be a deep and moody character beneath his
sexy good looks. He has moved opposite Andrea Kelly who isn't that keen on
the good doctor. She's worried about his son, who appears less than happy in
the company of his father. Is there something else going on there?
Andrea herself however doesn't have an ideal home situation
either. She is juggling a teaching career, caring for her family, which
includes her mother, and a less than supportive man! Andrea wants to find some
time for herself and that means a career change. However, that's not going to
be an easy dream to achieve, particularly without the full support of her man.
Circumstances conspire to make life as difficult as possible for her and she
and her family find themselves having to rely on Doctor Adams when their house
burns down. Is the dishy doctor all he seems?
Yet again Sheryl Browne has penned another hit book. Regular
readers of the blog will know that I am a huge fan of Sheryl's work and that is
simply because all her books never fail to keep me glued to the pages and
entertain me throughout. Learning to Love is just such a book. The characters
in the book are all so likable, particularly Andrea's mum who I just loved!
Some of her one-liners had me laughing out loud and the dynamics within
Andrea's family are hugely entertaining and sometimes a little sad. It sounds
like a total madhouse in the Kelly home and so true to real life! Such dynamics
and the interaction between characters make this such a good story. Its a book
about love, fear and trust. It's about making that leap and taking a chance on
another person when you are so afraid of a broken heart.
Andrea is a strong character who is doing what lots of women do and try to multi-task to superhuman levels! This book contains that magic mix of ingredients for a good rom-com - fun, laughter, romance, love, passion and that feel good factor! Plus heaps of real life thrown in! I couldn't help but swoon after the hunky doctor and some parts of the book left my pulse racing just a little! This book will have you smiling, grinning big soppy grins, going all mushy, gasping and laughing your socks off! It'll also leave you feeling as desperate and frustrated as Andrea. Loved it! I'd highly recommend this book! Well done Sheryl Browne..............again!
ABOUT SHERYL BROWNE
Heartache,
humour, love, loss & betrayal, Sheryl Browne brings you sassy, sexy,
heart-wrenching fiction. A member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Romantic
Novelists’ Association and shortlisted for the Best Romantic e-book Love
Stories Award 2015, Sheryl has several books published and two short stories in
Birmingham City University anthologies, where she completed her MA in Creative
Writing.
Recommended
to the publisher by the WH Smith Travel fiction buyer, Sheryl’s contemporary
fiction comes to you from award winning Choc Lit.
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