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The Runaways
Curl up in a comfy space and have your favourite drink by your side as you read this heart-warming trilogy of short love stories about an unlikely and yet endearing couple. Join them on their journey at the very beginning in The Runaways as they elope to get married, keeping their relationship and wedding a secret from their family and friends. Then discover how they spend the first year of their lives together enjoying other people's happiness in The Wedding Bells of Bow. Finally their love story concludes in Tell Me a Story...but will it have a happy ending?
The Runaways: A Trilogy of Short Love Stories is a short but very sweet read with lots of romance, a little food for thought and plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing and rooting for the couple at the heart of the stories.
(PLEASE NOTE: If you've already read London Eyes: Short Stories and Shy Feet: Short Stories Inspired by Travel, please note that you will have already read the first two stories in this trilogy, so you may want to jump straight to Tell Me a Story, or alternatively enjoy re-acquainting yourself with this much loved couple of romantics.)
The Runaways: A Trilogy of Short Love Stories is a short but very sweet read with lots of romance, a little food for thought and plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing and rooting for the couple at the heart of the stories.
(PLEASE NOTE: If you've already read London Eyes: Short Stories and Shy Feet: Short Stories Inspired by Travel, please note that you will have already read the first two stories in this trilogy, so you may want to jump straight to Tell Me a Story, or alternatively enjoy re-acquainting yourself with this much loved couple of romantics.)
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 1, 2016
8 people want to read
About the author
Frances M. Thompson
33 books229 followersFrances M. Thompson writes stories about bisexual disaster heroes usually getting the HEAs they deserve in her spicy contemporary romance... but sometimes getting into a lot of trouble in her suspense thrillers.
Frances loves chatting with her readers and the best places to do so is in her Facebook Readers' Group or on Instagram.
Originally from London, UK, but now based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Frances is the author of the contemporary (and steamy!) romances, Five Sunsets, The Moon Also Rises, and Let Love Rule, sapphic romances Hummingbird and Butterflies, three short story collections (Shy Feet Short Stories Inspired by Travel, London Eyes Short Stories, and Nine Women: Short Stories), a collection of poetry called Lover Mother Other, and the London Killing series of fast-paced urban thrillers, including The Wait and The Weaker Sex.
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Frances also works as a freelance writer and blogger. You can read her (oft-neglected) blog, As the Bird flies. She is also the creator of WriteNOW Cards, positive affirmations cards designed to help writers build and enjoy a writing practice they love.
Follow Frances on href="https://www.instagram.com/FrancesMTho... or on TikTok @francesmthompson.
Frances loves chatting with her readers and the best places to do so is in her Facebook Readers' Group or on Instagram.
Originally from London, UK, but now based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Frances is the author of the contemporary (and steamy!) romances, Five Sunsets, The Moon Also Rises, and Let Love Rule, sapphic romances Hummingbird and Butterflies, three short story collections (Shy Feet Short Stories Inspired by Travel, London Eyes Short Stories, and Nine Women: Short Stories), a collection of poetry called Lover Mother Other, and the London Killing series of fast-paced urban thrillers, including The Wait and The Weaker Sex.
To find out about Frances' upcoming books first, sign up to her newsletter.
You can find copies of her books (and more!) in her shop.
Frances also works as a freelance writer and blogger. You can read her (oft-neglected) blog, As the Bird flies. She is also the creator of WriteNOW Cards, positive affirmations cards designed to help writers build and enjoy a writing practice they love.
Follow Frances on href="https://www.instagram.com/FrancesMTho... or on TikTok @francesmthompson.
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March 1, 2016
Frances M. Thompson writes beautifully. She loves to travel and many of the details she picks up during her travels inspire her stories and help to bring them alive (she does her research as well). And she definitely cares about her characters and this trilogy of short stories is testimony to that. She first wrote about the unusual protagonist couple in The Runaways, published as part of Shy Feet, her first collection of short stories, and has now written two more sequel stories about them.
When I read Shy Feet several years ago, The Runaways was one of my favourite stories. I was surprised by the unexpected revelation about the couple near the end of the story and I kept going back to look for clues I missed or misread. I read it a second time now and as I already knew the twist, I just got through the pages without being really drawn to the story. More surprising that moving, I guess.
I found The Wedding Bells of Bow to be the weakest story of the three, which felt more like a list of random facts about some churches in London than a proper story.
Tell Me A Story, the last story in this trilogy, uses the storytelling game this couple play to reminisce about the characters' pasts (including what happened in the previous two stories) and explore their current worries. It's a quick read and would probably work as a stand-alone story, which is a good thing if you have already read the previous two and want to skip them, as the author suggests.
When I read Shy Feet several years ago, The Runaways was one of my favourite stories. I was surprised by the unexpected revelation about the couple near the end of the story and I kept going back to look for clues I missed or misread. I read it a second time now and as I already knew the twist, I just got through the pages without being really drawn to the story. More surprising that moving, I guess.
I found The Wedding Bells of Bow to be the weakest story of the three, which felt more like a list of random facts about some churches in London than a proper story.
Tell Me A Story, the last story in this trilogy, uses the storytelling game this couple play to reminisce about the characters' pasts (including what happened in the previous two stories) and explore their current worries. It's a quick read and would probably work as a stand-alone story, which is a good thing if you have already read the previous two and want to skip them, as the author suggests.
March 17, 2016
Sweet stories that remind that love can find its way in unexpected places, and for some people, is not a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. As the two protagonists exchanged stories and anecdotes, the layers added depth and realism to their characters, until I felt I had known them forever.
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