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A Year of Taking Chances: a gorgeously uplifting, feel-good read
Jennifer Bohnet
‘Utterly enjoyable from beginning to end!’ Being Unique BooksLife is about to change forever…When best friends, Tina and Jodie, make a drunken New Year’s Eve vow to change their lives before they hit the big 3 – 0, neither expected to end the year with much more than another hangover…Twelve months later, Jodie is married and living in Provence – and Tina is exactly where she was a year ago (although now her rent is double). Tina can’t help but feel a little bit left behind, but as Jodie reminds her, she’s not thirty yet, there’s still time to quit her job, start her own literary agency and sign the man of her dreams!Don’t miss the new gorgeously uplifting holiday romance from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet.Praise for A Year of Taking Chances:‘A must-read!’ Anita Tarrant (NetGalley reviewer)‘There are no words to justify how beautiful this book is. I loved every minute!’ Karen Whittard (NetGalley reviewer)‘Utterly enjoyable from beginning to end!’ Being Unique Books‘Fabulous!’ Lianne James (NetGalley reviewer)‘Amazing…I couldn’t put it down.’ Nicola Clough (NetGalley reviewer)‘Well-written and engaging… made me laugh and cry!’ Harriet Salkeld (NetGalley reviewer)
Life is about to change forever…
When best friends Tina and Jodie make a drunken New Year’s Eve vow to change their lives before they hit the big three-oh, neither really expects to end the year with much more than another hangover…
Twelve months later, Jodie is married and living in Provence – and Tina is exactly where she was a year ago (although now her rent is double). Tina can’t help but feel a little bit left behind, but as Jodie reminds her, she’s not thirty yet, there’s still time to quit her job, start her own literary agency and sign the man of her dreams!
Don’t miss the new, gorgeously uplifting holiday romance from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet.
JENNIFER BOHNET is originally from the West Country but now lives in the wilds of rural Brittany, France. She's still not sure how she ended up there! The saying ‘life is what happens while you're deciding what to do…’ is certainly true in her case. She's always written alongside having various jobs: playgroup leader, bookseller, landlady, restauranteur, farmer's wife, secretary – the list is endless but does provide a rich vein of inspiration for her stories.
For three years she wrote a newspaper column for the South Hams Group of Newspapers (Devon) where she took a wry look at family life. Since living in France it is her fiction that has taken off, with hundreds of short stories and several serials published internationally.
Allergic to housework and gardening, she rarely does either, but she does like cooking and entertaining and wandering around vide greniers (the French equivalent of flea markets) looking for a bargain or two. Her children currently live in fear of her turning into an ageing hippy and moving to Totnes, Devon.
To find out more about Jennifer, visit her website at jenniferbohnet.com (http://jenniferbohnet.com) or chat to her on Twitter at @jenniewriter (https://twitter.com/@jenniewriter).
Also byJennifer Bohnet (#ulink_20b15350-b2c6-5d47-a986-49c104ca1b3d)
Summer at Coastguard Cottages
Rosie’s Little Café on the Riviera
The Little Kiosk by the Sea
A French Pirouette
You Had Me at Bonjour
I’m Virtually Yours
A Year of Taking Chances
Jennifer Bohnet
ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES
Copyright (#ulink_797d2d24-fa13-5e61-b93c-21b0f0b2c2e2)
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018
Copyright © Jennifer Bohnet 2018
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E-book Edition © April 2018 ISBN: 978-0-00-826272-3
This one is definitely for Richard, my husband, remembering all the chances we have taken together down the years – some that failed dismally, others that turned out to be spectacular! xxx
Contents
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Blurb (#u9446100a-02a9-5402-92ae-113c977c8335)
Author Bio (#ufcaa5ce4-18e0-517d-bb80-9a750b22bf16)
Booklist (#ulink_04b099ef-26b8-5a59-827b-d416d900e592)
Title Page (#u3e2258cb-b8d3-5313-a4d8-8ee992a789af)
Copyright (#ulink_00b6ddcc-072e-5b6b-b3f1-16f088d68351)
Dedication (#u18824945-feec-5043-8d28-415c429a3420)
Prologue (#ulink_75ee5e76-05d8-5c2a-9c41-10a05a34c386)
Chapter One (#ulink_3f12934b-5f57-5b73-91e8-79d25639f468)
Chapter Two (#ulink_288978e0-32df-542f-8be6-f58264ac4f58)
Chapter Three (#ulink_34026b44-669a-578f-af37-002891c4ddcf)
Chapter Four (#ulink_b9554d64-11e5-5a2a-a463-d2c898746e0e)
Chapter Five (#ulink_4e4e643a-c2f8-5b01-940b-bde88d29c52c)
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-One
Chapter Fifty-Two
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
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About the Publisher
Prologue (#ulink_fbbab8d5-b60e-5a2d-aea4-b06b69876da5)
New Year’s Eve
