Now that the first draft of Haircuts, Hens and Homicide is in the bag, I’ve been able to return to part Deux of my memoir of our lives in France, Total Immersion. To whet your appetites here’s an extract from the chapter ‘2012: The Year of the Pig’. The Big Freeze of 2017 is going… Continue reading A chilly extract from ‘Total Immersion’
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Heads Above Water – extract for Sample Sunday
Chapter 4: Signing on the Dotted Line Il faut réfléchir avant d’agir. You have to think before acting. One night on the ferry and one night in a hotel watching France play Spain in the World Cup later, we pulled into Les Fragnes about midday on the 28th June. Nigel and Philippe, the estate agents,… Continue reading Heads Above Water – extract for Sample Sunday
Beat the Hackers – Sample Sunday
My samplesunday contribution this week is the opening chapter from Beat the Hackers, the next of my books to hit Kindle in the very near future. Monday 13 May 2013 Heather Mayhew strode briskly up the steep hill towards home. She’d just got off the school bus. It was running late today, so that was… Continue reading Beat the Hackers – Sample Sunday