MOVING ON

by Clare Cassy

'Moving On' is the third and final book in the 'Willow Cottage Trilogy.' Milly is getting older. She's tired and struggles running the 'Willow Cottage' B&B. She worries about her daughter Sophie, a single parent with a flagging career, living in London on a shoe-string with a wayward teenager. Surely it would make more sense for them all to live together in 'Willow Cottage?' Sophie could step into her shoes and make a nice comfortable living allowing Milly to take a back seat, be a proper granny and grow old gracefully, safe in the knowledge that her daughter has her own home. But is Milly as ready as she thinks to hand over the reins of her precious B&B? And can Sophie live with the increasingly erratic and often unnerving behaviour of her Mother? ‘The Willow Cottage Trilogy,’ follows the stories of three consecutive owners of 'Willow Cottage’ - an imposing 17th century, sixteen-bedroom, listed property in West Sussex, which they run as a ‘B&B’. It’s a big change of lifestyle for each of them and they all buy the property with fresh hopes for the future. The house exists, the author’s mother, the inspiration for the stories, ran it very successfully as a 'B&B' for many years. A favourite place to stay for visiting Americans and the local Goodwood racing crowd, they loved its beams and creaky staircases, the secret escape tunnel and stories of pirates and ghosts.

127 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2020

About the author

I was born in Guildford and went to a convent boarding school (yes, really!) when I was about twelve. (Invaluable experience in prepping you for the joys or otherwise, of flat-sharing in later life).
I left there at sixteen and went to a mixed, sixth-form college where I did my A levels. (A big shock after attending an all girls school - boys in the class, how unnerving).

After A levels, I lived and worked as an au-pair girl in Paris for a year. On my return to England, I did a good, old fashioned secretarial course which led me to jobs in advertising and film production.

Having always written since I could hold a pencil, I trained as an advertising copywriter and worked in advertising for a while, writing radio, press and trade ads. From there, I moved on to magazine journalism ( a job I still do, writing feature stories for various women's magazines).

Writing novels now seems to be a natural progression for me.