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Sheer Chance
In the seventies, the decade of sexual opportunity, Avril Brett decided not to break the traditional rules. Her reward? A picturesque country cottage, a meaningless secretarial job, and Hugh, the charming but faithless husband who refuses her the child that might threaten his errant ways. But now Avril begins to realize it's time she lived for herself. To her shock and delight, she finds herself involved with her boss - and discovers what love is really about.
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 16, 1997
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Suzanne Goodwin
20 books15 followersSuzanne Cecile Ebel Goodwin
aka Suzanne Ebel, Suzanne Goodwin, Cecily Shelbourne
Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator and drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as journalist to Newspaper The Times, as public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 to the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. On 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she widowed. She died on 28 February 2008.
Suzanne published her first novel in 1963, Journey from Yesterday, that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She started signed contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin to singed historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award by her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.
aka Suzanne Ebel, Suzanne Goodwin, Cecily Shelbourne
Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator and drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as journalist to Newspaper The Times, as public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 to the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. On 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she widowed. She died on 28 February 2008.
Suzanne published her first novel in 1963, Journey from Yesterday, that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She started signed contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin to singed historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award by her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.
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March 17, 2008
Very abrupt. Not what the summary on the book jacket promised!
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June 26, 2016Slightly old fashioned novel about relationships - fairly entertaining.
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