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Of course you’re not. I’m here for more than work. I’m your right-hand woman. The dragon at your gate.’ Nessa polished a smudge from her glasses. ‘When you employed me, you said I had to be there for you in both calm and crisis, so here I am. I assume this is the crisis part. We’re in this together. Bring it on.’ Nothing?’ Nessa gaped at her and then looked guilty. ‘I’m so thoughtless. Here am I worrying about spiders and press statements, and you’ve just lost the man you were married to for two decades. I know you were divorced, and that he wasn’t exactly –‘ her voice trailed off as she studied Joanna’s face, ‘I mean twenty years is a long time, even if he was a –‘ she gave a helpless shrug. ‘Give me some clues here. I want to say the right thing, but I don’t know what that is. How do you feel? Are you sad or mad? Do I get you tissues or a punch bag?’
Beach House Summer by Sarah Morgan | Waterstones
Book an exceptional beachside cottage with Dream Ireland and explore some of Ireland's most beautiful beaches. Dream Ireland offer a range of quiet and tranquil seaside holiday cottages in scenic coastal locations across Ireland, for those who are looking to get away from it all. A] poignant tale of opportunities lost and regained…This emotional romance is an easy choice to throw in the beach bag.”— Publishers Weekly Ashley and Joanna have both had their struggles but they find each other after Joanna's ex husband dies in the car with Ashley and those two just develop the most beautiful relationship. Ashley's lost her mum and Joanna has had a miscarriage and even though they can't replace what the other's lost, they still find a way to fill those holes.
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Beach House Summer | Sarah Morgan | 9780008916718 | NetGalley
Her eyes stung. She told herself it was the wind in her face because her mother had drummed into her that life was too short to cry over a man. She wouldn’t be here at all except that she’d felt alone and scared and needed to do something to help herself. She was afraid she couldn’t do this on her own, and he had to take some responsibility surely? He shouldn’t be allowed to just walk away. That wasn’t right. Like it or not, they were bonded.Yes, she had to go. Divorce or no divorce, it was the respectful thing to do. People would be watching. Everyone would want to know how she felt, not that she would tell them. She never spoke to the press. I’m usually the person reading the murder mysteries or suspense novels. I do like a good women’s fiction and romance novel though and I had good feelings about Beach House Summer when I read the description. Sarah Morgan did not disappoint. Why did they hate her so much? It was a question she’d often pondered, and the only explanation that made sense was that they envied her. They envied her going to bed with Cliff, waking up next to Cliff, wearing his ring on her finger. And the only way to handle that envy was to convince themselves that she was having a miserable life. She saw the words Breaking News appear on the screen and turned up the sound in time to hear the newsreader telling the world that celebrity chef Cliff Whitman had been killed in an accident and that they would be giving more information as they had it. Currently all they knew was that his car had gone off the road. He’d been pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, a young woman as yet unnamed, had been flown to hospital, her condition unknown.
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Dead.’ She said the word aloud again, trying to make it real. Testing herself. Pressing, to see if it hurt. She’d stayed ridiculously loyal to him for two decades and yes, she regretted it now. He’d made her extravagant promises and told her she was the best thing in his life and that this time things were going to be different, and naively she’d believed him. And she hadn’t just done it once. She’d done it repeatedly. She’d thought this time he means it and things will be different, but things never were different and he hadn’t meant it. And now she felt stupid for believing he’d ever change, and that the things he said would ever be anything other than empty words spoken to induce her to stay, but she’d so badly wanted to believe him because the alternative was to accept that under the charm and the warmth Cliff Whitman was a cheat and a liar, and that she’d stayed with him far too long. Thinking of consequences made her palms grow damp. She should do it right now, while half his attention was on the road.Beach House Summer by Sarah Morgan is a delightful summer read. It draws the reader in with a bit of a small mystery at the beginning about Ashley and Cliff. When Joanna Whitman's famous ex-husband dies in a car accident, she doesn't know what to feel. Their dysfunctional marriage held more painful secrets than she cares to remember. But when she discovers that the young woman with him in the crash is pregnant, Joanna feels compelled to act, knowing exactly how brutal the media spotlight will be on celebrity chef Cliff Whitman's ex-wife and his mysterious female friend. He should know that. She wanted him to know that. She wanted him to say I know you’re not Mandy but he didn’t of course, because women came and went from his life and he was already moving on to the next one . Unlike Cliff, she’d never sought fame or celebrity but she’d been caught in his spotlight anyway. It was one of the reasons she’d moved to a different neighbourhood after the divorce. She’d hoped to be able to slide away from the dazzling beam of attention that always landed on him. She’d chosen to live in a small discreet community, rather than up among the flashy mansions in Bel Air where Cliff entertained lavishly on his verdant terrace with views of mountains and ocean. They’d found her of course, because the media could find anyone, but she’d hoped that by living a quiet, low key, non-newsworthy, Cliff-free life she’d become less interesting to them. And Nessa was right. It would affect the business. The business they’d built together. She’d given up on their marriage, but she hadn’t given up on that. She’d spent the past twenty years nurturing it, watching it grow. It was her baby.
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