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Hiding Behind The Couch #4
In The Stars Part I: Capricorn–Gemini
Some things are just meant to be, or sometimes it seems that way. Like old uni pals inexplicably moving to your hometown, or realising that your childhood best friend is the love of your life, or landing a star role in a hit TV series that could well be your autobiography.
Fate, karma, written in the stars, or just bizarre quirks of coincidence?
For better or worse, the events of the next six months will push the friends to the limits. For The Circle can expand and contract, but it is always whole; eternal.
Set over the first six months of a year of The Circle, In The Stars Part I explores the day-to-day lives of nine friends from high school who are now it their late thirties, following them through celebration, loss, illness and life-changing decisions.
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Season four of Hiding Behind The Couch - In The Stars Part I is also available as six separate episodes.
Fate, karma, written in the stars, or just bizarre quirks of coincidence?
For better or worse, the events of the next six months will push the friends to the limits. For The Circle can expand and contract, but it is always whole; eternal.
Set over the first six months of a year of The Circle, In The Stars Part I explores the day-to-day lives of nine friends from high school who are now it their late thirties, following them through celebration, loss, illness and life-changing decisions.
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Season four of Hiding Behind The Couch - In The Stars Part I is also available as six separate episodes.
480 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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January 7, 2014
I realised something quite pertinent when I picked up In The Stars I by Debbie McGowan; I'd neglected some very good friends for too long.
I'm not refering to my favourite author, but rather the characters she has created. I say created, really what I mean is who she has injected into my life. These people are as real as any you will ever meet face to face, and like the best of friendships, they don't care how long you don't see them for, the moment they're in front of you it's a comfortable and easy relationship, not unlike sinking into the sofa in a pair of clean pyjamas and some ratty old slippers for a chinwag with your best friend.
Perfect.
In The Stars I spans six months of the year. It's nearly 500 pages long. And yet, when you sit down with it, you become so immersed in this magically normal world, with it's achingly normal people, that it seems to pass in a flurry of pages and mere hours.
This is the kind of story that drags you in with open arms and you never want to leave it's cleverly created embrace.
I'm not refering to my favourite author, but rather the characters she has created. I say created, really what I mean is who she has injected into my life. These people are as real as any you will ever meet face to face, and like the best of friendships, they don't care how long you don't see them for, the moment they're in front of you it's a comfortable and easy relationship, not unlike sinking into the sofa in a pair of clean pyjamas and some ratty old slippers for a chinwag with your best friend.
Perfect.
In The Stars I spans six months of the year. It's nearly 500 pages long. And yet, when you sit down with it, you become so immersed in this magically normal world, with it's achingly normal people, that it seems to pass in a flurry of pages and mere hours.
This is the kind of story that drags you in with open arms and you never want to leave it's cleverly created embrace.
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October 28, 2015This is the first of a two part story available from January 1st 2014, which follows on from The Harder They Fall and First Christmas.
In The Stars (Parts I and II) follows 'The Circle' through a year in their lives, and as such is structured differently from the first three novels in the series, with 12 sections, each denoted by a sign of the zodiac (6 in each of the two instalments). Within each section the chapters have proper titles (rather than just numbers), many sharing the titles of the songs that inspired aspects of the story - this idea came from a 'discussion' with author Laura Susan Johnson, and I have tried to capture the 'feel' of the song in the given chapter.
The intention is for readers to be able to dip into the story - a deliberate ploy on my part, as previous reviewers said they liked to return to the Hiding Behind The Couch books and read specific 'episodes' within. The structure I have used is intended to make this an easier process.
The separate sections (Capricorn, Aquarius, and so on) will also be available as standalone ebooks.
Breaking Waves is a short story interlude in the middle of In The Stars.
In The Stars (Parts I and II) follows 'The Circle' through a year in their lives, and as such is structured differently from the first three novels in the series, with 12 sections, each denoted by a sign of the zodiac (6 in each of the two instalments). Within each section the chapters have proper titles (rather than just numbers), many sharing the titles of the songs that inspired aspects of the story - this idea came from a 'discussion' with author Laura Susan Johnson, and I have tried to capture the 'feel' of the song in the given chapter.
The intention is for readers to be able to dip into the story - a deliberate ploy on my part, as previous reviewers said they liked to return to the Hiding Behind The Couch books and read specific 'episodes' within. The structure I have used is intended to make this an easier process.
The separate sections (Capricorn, Aquarius, and so on) will also be available as standalone ebooks.
Breaking Waves is a short story interlude in the middle of In The Stars.
August 5, 2014
I have been reading this, on and off, for quite a few weeks. It took me quite a while to get into because I didn't know any of the characters, but as the book progressed they were so well drawn that I got to know them as well as the author. Real life and real people, that's what I got from this book.
June 9, 2014
part 1 of the next chapter in our 'friends' lives. I'm sure the author has actually met all these people at some point as she creates such real people. Things are about to change in everybodys lives. some things are positive and some things aren't. the circle will never be the same again!!!
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