Temptation

by Pat Booth

* A novel of our times focussing on relationships and the difficulties facing women trying to carve a career for themselves..Kate is determined to make something of herself and pays for her course at a design school by waitressing at night. But she meets Peter, falls in love and has a daughter, Samantha, which puts her career on hold for a while.When Samantha is a teenager, Kate returns to her ambitions - and is a great success (Martha Stewart-like), ending up by owning a huge corporation concentrating mainly on magazines. She now has everything she has ever wanted - but then Peter leaves her. Devastated, she has to get over a two-year deep depression which almost ruins her business. She manages, with Sam's help, to put the business and her life together again but tragedy strikes again - Sam is caught in a fire and badly hurt...Peter returns to give his support and then has to rescue Kate's company as a hostile bidder turns up.

476 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 1999

Reviews

[Zainab · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kate is an ambitious, passionate, creative and energetic woman who is determined to do something big. She falls in love with Peter, a book agent, and marries him. Recognizing her own natural talent of designing and beautifying things, she opts for a course in design and becomes amazingly popular and succesful in no time. But soon her happiness is subdued by suffereing.

My favourite lines from the book:
"If you followed your dream and ignored the prosaic dreams of others, you came to be alone. And loneliness was not for the weak. You had to be strong to choose passion. It was the timid who sought refuge in reason."

[Seth Marianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Suspense!!!