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Informationen zum Autor With an insatiable appetite for other people's business! Erica James will readily strike up conversation with strangers in the hope of unearthing a useful gem for her writing. She finds it the best way to write authentic characters for her novels! although her two grown-up sons claim they will never recover from a childhood spent in a perpetual state of embarrassment at their mother's compulsion. The author of many bestselling novels! including GARDENS OF DELIGHT! which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award! and her recent Sunday Times top ten bestsellers! SUMMER AT THE LAKE and THE DANDELION YEARS! Erica now divides her time between Suffolk and Lake Como in Italy! where she strikes up conversation with unsuspecting Italians. Visit her website www.ericajames.co.uk or follow her on Twitter @TheEricaJames Zusammenfassung Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers´ groups attract an unlikely mix of people! so when she starts up Hidden Talents! she is well prepared for the assortment of people she is bringing together. Beth King is facing empty-nest syndrome as her only son! Nathan! leaves home for university. Jack Solomon! a local estate agent! is having trouble coming to terms with the shock of his wife leaving him for his best friend. Jaz Rafferty is an intensely private seventeen-year-old girl who writes to escape her large! boisterous family. Victor Blackmore is a know-it-all! who claims to be writing the blockbuster novel every publisher will be clamouring for. What they all have in common is a need to escape! as well as a desire to keep their lives as private as possible. As they grow more confident in their writing skills! friendships develop! and gradually they come to realise that a little openness isn´t necessarily a bad thing.
