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Tara Ford

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Born

in Woking, Surrey, The United Kingdom

February 27

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Fiction, Romance, Humor and Comedy

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Bernadette Strachan
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Tara Ford lives in Hampshire, UK with her husband, children, a naughty husky, quite a few well protected koi carp and a very frustrated heron. When she's not busily tapping away at the keyboard, she likes to pretend she can cook or she'll wander into her garden to poke and prod at the plants and flowers, for just long enough to fool the neighbours into thinking that she knows what she's doing.
Failing all of the above, Tara likes to spend time procrastinating while the dinner burns and the flowers wither and die.

You can visit Tara's website at - http://taraford.weebly.com/ or her Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Tara.Ford.Au...

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I have spent the last thirty years waiting to write my first book. Why so lon Tara Ford lives in Hampshire, UK with her husband, children, a naughty husky, quite a few well protected koi carp and a very frustrated heron. When she's not busily tapping away at the keyboard, she likes to pretend she can cook or she'll wander into her garden to poke and prod at the plants and flowers, for just long enough to fool the neighbours into thinking that she knows what she's doing.
Failing all of the above, Tara likes to spend time procrastinating while the dinner burns and the flowers wither and die.

You can visit Tara's website at - http://taraford.weebly.com/ or her Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Tara.Ford.Au...

A few words from the author...

I have spent the last thirty years waiting to write my first book. Why so long, I hear you ask? Well you know how it is, you get an idea in your head, mull it over for a while, get married, rekindle the dream momentarily, have children and then wake up thirty years down the line and think - Gosh! Where did that time go?
My novel writing dream manifested itself when I was fifteen years old. I had been set some English homework to write an essay about something which I cannot remember now. What I do remember is the trouble I got into when I handed my completed, labour of love, story in. It may seem odd that I got into trouble for handing in homework when these days it is a godsend to get children to even think about doing any homework but there was a slight problem... The problem was that I had written a love story which was rather explicit. Firstly, it was completely unsuitable for a fifteen year old to write and secondly, it was deemed extremely unsuitable material for school work.
Sadly, my essay was discarded and I was duly punished for the crime, although my teacher did take me aside and admit, that the story had been well written, the content was good and I should think about writing more stories. The deep burning desire has stayed with me ever since, although the genre I like to write now is not anything like fifty shades of grey, but more like women's contemporary fiction/humour. ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 192 ratings · 25 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Stuff the Turkey (Festive Flaws and Fairy Lights Book 1) 3.85 avg rating — 65 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling All Services 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling All Dentists 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling All Neighbours (Calling All... Book 4) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling all Customers 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Hate (love) Brussels Sprouts (Festive Flaws and Fairy Lights Book 2) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Chocolate Book Tag Challenge

Well, I think this picture says it all really - no need to go any further because I CAN'T...

I've eaten far too much chocolate (purely for research purposes) and will have to clean up my sticky keyboard and wash my hands and face. Be right back...

Right, so on to the Chocolate Book Tag Challenge then...
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Who Let the Gods Out?

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Feel Great Lose Weight: Long term, simple habits for lasting and sustainable weight loss

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What a great debut novel from Jennifer Barstow! I've been left wanting more having sadly finished the book. The storyline is intriguing and captivating in its entirety. I look forward to the next installment or even better, the film! ...more
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What a great debut novel from Jennifer Barstow! I've been left wanting more having sadly finished the book. The storyline is intriguing and captivating in its entirety. I look forward to the next installment or even better, the film! ...more
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