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Dancing In The Moonlight
Rosa Brennan loved her work as a stable jockey at the Victoriana Grange Stables. After a confrontation with the arrogant Claudia Rochelle about her reckless driving, Rosa got to meet handsome Kit Pedersen, who kept a string of racehorses at the Victoriana. Rosa knew that Kit was no ordinary owner - he held the fate of the stables in his hands. But when Claudia sees the growing attraction between Rosa and Kit, she does her utmost to get Kit to move his horses elswhere...
197 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1999
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About the author
Christina Jones
85 books192 followersI've written all my life, but only became a published novelist in 1997. Before that, I wrote short stories and newspaper articles for pin money while doing a series of naff jobs. In fact I've had twenty seven jobs and been sacked from nineteen of them for writing when I should have been working. I've been, among other things, a shop assistant, waitress, cleaner, secretary, factory worker, market-researcher, nanny, bookseller, night-club dancer, civil servant, blood donor attendant, fruit-picker and barmaid. I'm now, apparently, a Real Writer.
Writing for a living is wonderful - a dream come true - and I now manage to combine writing novels, short stories and articles with not doing the housework, not doing the gardening, not cooking much, but at least attempting to look after my husband - the Toyboy Trucker - and my daughter and our 17 rescued cats.
I was born in Oxford and have lived in Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, London and Jersey. I blame my parents both for my itchy feet and my romantic soul. My Dad was a circus clown - Poor Billy, Prince of Laughter Makers - and my Mum who trained as a teacher, came from an army family, and had lived in six countries before she was 15. They met and fell in love while the circus was off the road and my Dad was working as Santa Claus in a department store. My Mum, at home for Christmas, was the fairy in his grotto. I was entranced by the way they met, that they were from such different backgrounds, and that their love for one another managed to survive every obstacle and objection thrown in its path. Every book I've written has their story at its core.
I grew up in a Berkshire village, in a tight, happy, secure and very working class community. My childhood was idyllically happy, and my friends from those days are still my best friends now. My novels reflect this community spirit, and all have small groups of people - crossing class, age and gender - who are friends and work together through the roller coaster ride of life. Also, because the women I grew up with were, by necessity, tough and go-getting with a sense of humour, my heroines are gutsy and strong. Real women in real situations. And the fact that the backgrounds to my books mirror my own past experiences is no coincidence, either.
My parents were great storytellers and avid readers, and taught me to read long before I started school, so I started writing my own stories at about five years old without thinking it in the least odd. Writing was an obsession, a friend, a way of life. I had my first short story published at 14, still blissfully unaware this was unusual. However, having a novel published was my life's ambition - and one that took another thirty writing years to achieve.
Having won a couple of awards for my short stories, I joined the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1993, and was lucky enough to be voted runner-up for the New Writers' Scheme Award at my second attempt in 1995. Dancing in the Moonlight was published by My Weekly Story Library, and as it didn't have an ISBN wasn't classed as a novel. I was, of course, ecstatic at this literary elevation - and it was at the RNA Awards Lunch that I was approached by an agent who suggested I should try writing full length commercial fiction. Going the Distance was the result, and amazingly it was sold to a publisher straight away and then, equally amazingly, chosen for the 1997 WH Smith Fresh Talent Promotion - and I haven't (touch wood and fingers and all other extremities crossed!) - looked back since.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Writing for a living is wonderful - a dream come true - and I now manage to combine writing novels, short stories and articles with not doing the housework, not doing the gardening, not cooking much, but at least attempting to look after my husband - the Toyboy Trucker - and my daughter and our 17 rescued cats.
I was born in Oxford and have lived in Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, London and Jersey. I blame my parents both for my itchy feet and my romantic soul. My Dad was a circus clown - Poor Billy, Prince of Laughter Makers - and my Mum who trained as a teacher, came from an army family, and had lived in six countries before she was 15. They met and fell in love while the circus was off the road and my Dad was working as Santa Claus in a department store. My Mum, at home for Christmas, was the fairy in his grotto. I was entranced by the way they met, that they were from such different backgrounds, and that their love for one another managed to survive every obstacle and objection thrown in its path. Every book I've written has their story at its core.
I grew up in a Berkshire village, in a tight, happy, secure and very working class community. My childhood was idyllically happy, and my friends from those days are still my best friends now. My novels reflect this community spirit, and all have small groups of people - crossing class, age and gender - who are friends and work together through the roller coaster ride of life. Also, because the women I grew up with were, by necessity, tough and go-getting with a sense of humour, my heroines are gutsy and strong. Real women in real situations. And the fact that the backgrounds to my books mirror my own past experiences is no coincidence, either.
My parents were great storytellers and avid readers, and taught me to read long before I started school, so I started writing my own stories at about five years old without thinking it in the least odd. Writing was an obsession, a friend, a way of life. I had my first short story published at 14, still blissfully unaware this was unusual. However, having a novel published was my life's ambition - and one that took another thirty writing years to achieve.
Having won a couple of awards for my short stories, I joined the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1993, and was lucky enough to be voted runner-up for the New Writers' Scheme Award at my second attempt in 1995. Dancing in the Moonlight was published by My Weekly Story Library, and as it didn't have an ISBN wasn't classed as a novel. I was, of course, ecstatic at this literary elevation - and it was at the RNA Awards Lunch that I was approached by an agent who suggested I should try writing full length commercial fiction. Going the Distance was the result, and amazingly it was sold to a publisher straight away and then, equally amazingly, chosen for the 1997 WH Smith Fresh Talent Promotion - and I haven't (touch wood and fingers and all other extremities crossed!) - looked back since.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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October 14, 2014
This isn't as developed as Christina Jones' books are now, but it's still a fun romantic romp if more mills and boon than romantic chick lit
April 7, 2025
Pretty dire to be honest. Not a patch on other Jones offerings. If this was the first Jones book I’d read, I wouldn’t have read another. Please don’t judge all her books by this one
January 23, 2026
At the moment I'm reading short books while watching the rest of the ice skating season and the Olympics. I love Christina's books but hadn't read this one. Her later books are very different to this and have humour in them which is what this book misses. However it's still readable and has helped me pass on some of these miserable January days. The story is, of course, predictable . I didn't read the pictured edition and the edition I read with the pink cover lets the reader know what to expect as an Amour romance novel. I wouldn't recommend starting with this one of hers. I would suggest Love Potions personally.
However, if you like books set in Jersey and about horse racing, Dancing in The Moonlight may well be one you would enjoy and you will certainly find yourself imagining yourself in either Jersey or Epsom.
However, if you like books set in Jersey and about horse racing, Dancing in The Moonlight may well be one you would enjoy and you will certainly find yourself imagining yourself in either Jersey or Epsom.
March 19, 2018
I'm very glad that this book was a freebie. Eight chapters of nonsense for Rosa to be 'scared' of love to in about 5 seconds falling in love with someone she barely knew. By the end she got engaged to him even though for most of the story he'd been involved with someone else who charmingly he was in a way using. Also Rosa had a whiplash reactions one minute she was ok with seeing him then suddenly she ditched him because he wasn't single. Really not worth the time spent reading.
March 11, 2018
Next book in the J challenge and this one was pretty dull - there was nothing to lift it above the fairly mundane. It was my first book by Christina Jones, but it did not really give me much inspiration to read another.
June 14, 2017
I enjoyed this book, but its not one of Christina Jones best. The plot was slightly predictable and it didn't draw me in as much as some of her other books.
July 24, 2017
light holiday read - fun and feelgood
April 8, 2015
I was looking for a light reading this weekend. So I browsed my kindle and just randomly picked one. This book is definitely a light read. However, it’s just disappointing.
It started pretty convincing, with the lead character, Rosa Brennan, sharing her passion for horses. I was interested to read that part. But it turned to be boring when she met Kit Pedersen. For someone who kept saying that she doesn’t believe in love, and won’t fall in love ever, she seems pretty easy and quick to fall for this Kit guy. I don’t know if the author wanted to make their relationship more interesting or what by kept making them argue about stupid stuff like Claudia Rochelle. But I was totally uninterested about it.
The plot is confusing and seems unrealistic. The characters, especially Rosa and Kit are too good to be true and unconvincing.
It started pretty convincing, with the lead character, Rosa Brennan, sharing her passion for horses. I was interested to read that part. But it turned to be boring when she met Kit Pedersen. For someone who kept saying that she doesn’t believe in love, and won’t fall in love ever, she seems pretty easy and quick to fall for this Kit guy. I don’t know if the author wanted to make their relationship more interesting or what by kept making them argue about stupid stuff like Claudia Rochelle. But I was totally uninterested about it.
The plot is confusing and seems unrealistic. The characters, especially Rosa and Kit are too good to be true and unconvincing.
August 13, 2010
Read because it was free on Kindle
March 23, 2015
The plot is too rushed.
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