Just One Year

by Colette Smith

Three young women move into a house together.
Ronnie wants to become independent; she doesn't always see herself as others see her, and sharing her room with her stroppy little sister Rosie is doing her head in. She's a secretary in a large Advertising Company; not very exciting but Ronnie doesn't value herself. especially as she gets to know her housemates Anna and Clara, both in professional jobs. what she doesn't expect is her life taking a huge tornado-like spiral into the stratosphere of achievment. First, she gets a lead part in the musical Chicago with amazing results, and then is appointed Manager for a ground breaking project in her company. Things go from good to wow for Ronnie, but with the odd dip in form with Lawrence; a colleague from sales, who is foisted upon as a number two, and tries his best to discredit her.

And Clara . . .good, solid, sensible Clara who leaves home,not for any reason other than her friends' enthusiasm and realisation that she must leave home sometime. Clara has lived a sheltered life; as the adopted daughter of loving parents, she has never really wanted contact with her mother Irene, until the day she springs up from nowhere, with a fairly dubious reason for seeking out her long lost daughter. can Clara find away through the biggest crisis in her life? Which way will she go? Will she ever be assertive enough to walk an independent path?

Anna-dark secretive Anna is scarred by being brought up by a bullying father. Anna is quick to accept Ronnie and Clara's invitation to move in with them this is a new start and she leaves her career in nursing to sing in a band and falls for Greg, the self-professed leade of the band. Greg has a habit progressing from the odd joint (or so he says) to cocaine mixed with copious amounts of alchol. Somehow Anna always seems to be around when his drug and drink fuelled moods become nasty. Can she help Greg or will the dream evaporate before her eyes?

290 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2012

About the author

My name is Colette Smith and this is my first novel, written over the period of a year, for six months of that in Spain.

My novel is a far cry from the type of writing I have done all my life, work reports, advocacy summaries and not too long ago, essays for my Business Degree. I've always wanted to discover whether the saying ‘everyone has a book in them’ applies to me and, yes, I suppose it does. I didn't, however, understand the commitment, the faith in one’s own abilities and the sheer amount of time and energy that is required to sustain a novel, but am now geared up with one novel under my belt and enthusiasm to continue with my next book, Echoes of My Father, which I hope will be finished by the end of the year.

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Reviews

[Sheseesall]

Wow... Very riveting!