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37 Photographs
From the author of Kindle Top 5 bestseller The Dress comes a modern romance with a transatlantic flavour.
Sidney Stone's heart is broken but she's finally free for the first time in her life. She may be all alone in the world (except for her housemates - one of whom is seven-years-old) but she has brains, attitude and a year-long scholarship to study poetry in Scotland.
A year away from Stanford, her childhood home, should give her plenty of opportunity to figure everything out. Except that she quickly realises that she's more confused than ever.
What does Sidney really want?
Is it Fraser, her handsome new Edinburgh classmate with the swanky apartment, the vintage sports car and a slightly dubious past?
Is it ditching school altogether to travel around Europe, taking a chance on an exotic new life, like her old high school friend, Jem?
Or does she just want to be on her own with her camera, her journal, a bottle of wine and an anthology of forgotten female poets?
Sidney can't make up her mind. And then she travels to Rome for Christmas and meets Antonio. Tall, dark, passionate and Italian, with great taste in restaurants and terrible taste in poetry, he just might be everything she's looking for. Except that he has other ideas.
This is Sidney's story, told in her own words - and 37 photographs.
Sidney Stone's heart is broken but she's finally free for the first time in her life. She may be all alone in the world (except for her housemates - one of whom is seven-years-old) but she has brains, attitude and a year-long scholarship to study poetry in Scotland.
A year away from Stanford, her childhood home, should give her plenty of opportunity to figure everything out. Except that she quickly realises that she's more confused than ever.
What does Sidney really want?
Is it Fraser, her handsome new Edinburgh classmate with the swanky apartment, the vintage sports car and a slightly dubious past?
Is it ditching school altogether to travel around Europe, taking a chance on an exotic new life, like her old high school friend, Jem?
Or does she just want to be on her own with her camera, her journal, a bottle of wine and an anthology of forgotten female poets?
Sidney can't make up her mind. And then she travels to Rome for Christmas and meets Antonio. Tall, dark, passionate and Italian, with great taste in restaurants and terrible taste in poetry, he just might be everything she's looking for. Except that he has other ideas.
This is Sidney's story, told in her own words - and 37 photographs.
- GenresRomanceContemporary
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 5, 2013
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Sophie Nicholls
11 books77 followersSophie Nicholls is a best-selling author and an award-winning poet based in York in the North of England.
She teaches Creative Writing at Teesside University and is Programme Leader of the MA Creative Writing by Online/Distance Learning.
She teaches Creative Writing at Teesside University and is Programme Leader of the MA Creative Writing by Online/Distance Learning.
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September 26, 2013FREE today on Amazon US (9/26/2013).
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December 6, 2013
Sidney Stone is addicted to taking photographs: 'photographs have always been about magic. I'm more interested in what I see in the moment when I look through the lens than anything that happens after that.'
Sidney is a young woman in flight from her past - the rich, controlling father who has recently died; the mother who left her when she was a young child and a love affair gone wrong. She's come to study poetry at Edinburgh university and make a new life for herself, independent of her father's money. In the hallway she bumps into Fraser MacIntosh, handsome, wealthy and very easy to be with. Sidney is both attracted and repelled - adamant that she's not getting involved with anyone else. Then, an old friend, now married to an Italian, invites Sidney to Italy for Christmas and lines up a very attractive Italian dentist to even up the numbers. His name is Antonio - he's molto simpatico and Sidney's emotional barricades are seriously challenged.
This plot summary may sound rather Mills and Boon, but the novel is more intelligent than that, and the writing is as good as you'd expect from a poet published by Salt. Sidney's struggle with her childhood demons and her desire to become her own person make excellent light reading. If you want a warm-hearted, romantic Christmas read to go with the chocolates and the bubbly, this is definitely it!
Sidney is a young woman in flight from her past - the rich, controlling father who has recently died; the mother who left her when she was a young child and a love affair gone wrong. She's come to study poetry at Edinburgh university and make a new life for herself, independent of her father's money. In the hallway she bumps into Fraser MacIntosh, handsome, wealthy and very easy to be with. Sidney is both attracted and repelled - adamant that she's not getting involved with anyone else. Then, an old friend, now married to an Italian, invites Sidney to Italy for Christmas and lines up a very attractive Italian dentist to even up the numbers. His name is Antonio - he's molto simpatico and Sidney's emotional barricades are seriously challenged.
This plot summary may sound rather Mills and Boon, but the novel is more intelligent than that, and the writing is as good as you'd expect from a poet published by Salt. Sidney's struggle with her childhood demons and her desire to become her own person make excellent light reading. If you want a warm-hearted, romantic Christmas read to go with the chocolates and the bubbly, this is definitely it!
October 7, 2013
37 photographs is like a story in a story.
A heartfelt journey of a woman finding herself finding answers finding peace and finding happiness.
There's no set script that life should go by in order to be happy. That's what Sydney finds out, that sometimes the obvious and easy is not what's meant to be.
A heartfelt journey of a woman finding herself finding answers finding peace and finding happiness.
There's no set script that life should go by in order to be happy. That's what Sydney finds out, that sometimes the obvious and easy is not what's meant to be.
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