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Daisy Days #2
Daisy Days with Cocoa
The sequel to Daisy Days. It's three years later...
Enjoying their retirement, now back on English soil after another six month stay in their second home in France, mayhem begins again for Susie and Jack Morton. Plain sailing isn’t a regular occurrence for them as their previous adventures revealed.
Towing Daisy their beloved caravan proves a challenge for Jack after his six-month break from caravanning – and the journey home from the port to Eastbourne is far from straight forward…with a surprise for Susie.
Will Susie be pleased with her birthday present from Jack? It’s got four legs and a tail and is going to turn the couples’ lives upside down – what’s more - it isn’t even her birthday!
Things aren’t quite as they seem when Jack and Susie finally get home to Eastbourne. The couple find themselves embroiled in an incredulous, farcical, and sometimes scary, adventure off up north with someone from their past that they would both prefer to forget…
There are twist and turns in the plot at every corner.
This is much more than an average story about caravanners – you will be amazed!
Keeps you guessing right to the end.
A light hearted comedy drama with your old friends from Daisy Days...
Enjoying their retirement, now back on English soil after another six month stay in their second home in France, mayhem begins again for Susie and Jack Morton. Plain sailing isn’t a regular occurrence for them as their previous adventures revealed.
Towing Daisy their beloved caravan proves a challenge for Jack after his six-month break from caravanning – and the journey home from the port to Eastbourne is far from straight forward…with a surprise for Susie.
Will Susie be pleased with her birthday present from Jack? It’s got four legs and a tail and is going to turn the couples’ lives upside down – what’s more - it isn’t even her birthday!
Things aren’t quite as they seem when Jack and Susie finally get home to Eastbourne. The couple find themselves embroiled in an incredulous, farcical, and sometimes scary, adventure off up north with someone from their past that they would both prefer to forget…
There are twist and turns in the plot at every corner.
This is much more than an average story about caravanners – you will be amazed!
Keeps you guessing right to the end.
A light hearted comedy drama with your old friends from Daisy Days...
581 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 13, 2021
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About the author
Lynne Gumbleton
19 books14 followersYou’re never too old to try something new.
That’s why we decided to have a crack at writing our first comedy novel in our sixties.
We write comedy misadventures for those who enjoy a smile and don’t want to take life too seriously.
Our lives both before and after we met and married have been full of surprises, funny incidents, and bizarre situations. We have both lived through ‘interesting times.’ What has kept us going through good times and bad has been our shared ironic sense of humour and strong self-belief that there will be a path through to better days.
We’ve tapped into our memories with our writing. Adding a good splash of over-active imagination and incredulity to come up with the characters and plots.
Are we like some of the characters in our books?
Yes, there are elements there especially in the Daisy Days books – Jack and Susie Morton are largely based on us. Other characters are a hotchpotch of people we’ve met, seen on TV or pure figments of our imagination.
Amazing how real they become though once they are brought to life in a manuscript. How wonderful it would be to invite all the characters in our books to a party and have a chat and let them get to know each other!
How do you write together as a couple?
We’ve always worked together so it comes quite easily (most of the time).
A few bits of trivia about us
We are retired (except for writing books – but that’s more like a hobby and no one tells us to go to work so that doesn’t count)
Yes, we are caravanners and we do have a caravan called Daisy – actually we’ve had two caravans called Daisy – good name so why change it? Our favourite destinations are Northumberland and The Scottish Borders which feature in our books.
Christopher had a heart attack and triple bypass just like Jack but he’s fit and well and eating porridge now.
Life has bowled us some odd balls from time to time, which have inspired our books. Not going into details – don’t want to give any plot lines away.
“We’ve lived everywhere man” as the song goes but are now permanently settled in Darlington – probably, but who knows?
We live with Princess Bonnie – a black and white cavapoo who likes soft cushions and keeps us both firmly under her paw.
Lynne creates all the covers to our books. She enjoys painting when she’s not writing, cooking or hoovering. (I do the hoovering actually)
We hope you enjoy reading our books as much as we loved writing them. Thank you for spending your time reading our creations, for which we are grateful. We never intended making money from our writings – it was started as a retirement hobby but the extra income is the icing on our pensions cake. And we need the money. (joke)
That’s why we decided to have a crack at writing our first comedy novel in our sixties.
We write comedy misadventures for those who enjoy a smile and don’t want to take life too seriously.
Our lives both before and after we met and married have been full of surprises, funny incidents, and bizarre situations. We have both lived through ‘interesting times.’ What has kept us going through good times and bad has been our shared ironic sense of humour and strong self-belief that there will be a path through to better days.
We’ve tapped into our memories with our writing. Adding a good splash of over-active imagination and incredulity to come up with the characters and plots.
Are we like some of the characters in our books?
Yes, there are elements there especially in the Daisy Days books – Jack and Susie Morton are largely based on us. Other characters are a hotchpotch of people we’ve met, seen on TV or pure figments of our imagination.
Amazing how real they become though once they are brought to life in a manuscript. How wonderful it would be to invite all the characters in our books to a party and have a chat and let them get to know each other!
How do you write together as a couple?
We’ve always worked together so it comes quite easily (most of the time).
A few bits of trivia about us
We are retired (except for writing books – but that’s more like a hobby and no one tells us to go to work so that doesn’t count)
Yes, we are caravanners and we do have a caravan called Daisy – actually we’ve had two caravans called Daisy – good name so why change it? Our favourite destinations are Northumberland and The Scottish Borders which feature in our books.
Christopher had a heart attack and triple bypass just like Jack but he’s fit and well and eating porridge now.
Life has bowled us some odd balls from time to time, which have inspired our books. Not going into details – don’t want to give any plot lines away.
“We’ve lived everywhere man” as the song goes but are now permanently settled in Darlington – probably, but who knows?
We live with Princess Bonnie – a black and white cavapoo who likes soft cushions and keeps us both firmly under her paw.
Lynne creates all the covers to our books. She enjoys painting when she’s not writing, cooking or hoovering. (I do the hoovering actually)
We hope you enjoy reading our books as much as we loved writing them. Thank you for spending your time reading our creations, for which we are grateful. We never intended making money from our writings – it was started as a retirement hobby but the extra income is the icing on our pensions cake. And we need the money. (joke)
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March 4, 2025
We need a 3rd!!!
April 14, 2022
Heat warming but different
Different twists and turns, always the unexpected.
Real life , interesting characters , a good follow on from the last book .
Different twists and turns, always the unexpected.
Real life , interesting characters , a good follow on from the last book .
June 16, 2022
two down, where’s the next?
So good to have a story that entertains, amuses and keeps you smiling, all at the same ntime. Onto number three now!
So good to have a story that entertains, amuses and keeps you smiling, all at the same ntime. Onto number three now!
March 22, 2025
good entertainment
Excellent story and interesting style as it’s written from two points of view. I might be a bit picky but the spelling and grammar do leave quite a lotto be desired. Also there are some basic errors in the French, especially the name of the house. Most importantly I loved the story.
Excellent story and interesting style as it’s written from two points of view. I might be a bit picky but the spelling and grammar do leave quite a lotto be desired. Also there are some basic errors in the French, especially the name of the house. Most importantly I loved the story.
May 7, 2024
I read the first book in this series and couldn’t wait to read the second. It’s one of those books with so many unexpected twists and turns that you don’t want it to end. Absolutely loved the storyline, the humour as well as the sadness. Great characters too!!! Great author!!
December 28, 2021
Good read
Great read funny .good book to get in to hope there is some more accents with Jack & Susie in daisy
Great read funny .good book to get in to hope there is some more accents with Jack & Susie in daisy
May 21, 2023
Good storyline but . . .
I found the bad spelling and grammar seriously affected my enjoyment of the book, it was the same in the first one. I think they need a proof reader!
I found the bad spelling and grammar seriously affected my enjoyment of the book, it was the same in the first one. I think they need a proof reader!
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