Wild Weekend

· Pan Macmillan
Ebook
304
Pages

About this ebook

Oliver Hardcastle scrapes an existence as an organic farmer. Miranda Marlow is a high-earning international town-planner. They may live in the same country but their values and lifestyles are so far apart they could have come from different solar systems. All they have in common is a string of disastrous relationships. Little wonder they have never met. Until one weekend in Suffolk when Miranda and her mother Clare, recently appointed Under-Secretary for Agriculture, are directed to the Manor believing it to be a country house hotel. It is in fact the private home of Ollie's mother, Bel Hardcastle, and a constant drain on her dwindling inheritance. Ollie immediately sees the opportunity to have a litte fun and make a bit of money - and the Marlows' luxury weekend turns into three days of hell at Manor House Hotel. Disasters strike, sparks fly and Miranda and Ollie loathe each other with something very close to passion...

About the author

Celia Brayfield is a novelist and cultural commentator. She is the author of nine novels. The latest, Wild Weekend explores the tensions in a Suffolk village in homage to Oliver Goldmsith's She Stoops to Conquer. To explore suburban living, she created the community of Westwick and explored mid-life manners in Mr Fabulous And Friends, and the environmental implications of urbanisation in Getting Home. She has often juxtaposed historical and contemporary settings, notably eighteenth century Spain in Sunset, pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in White Ice and Malaysia in the time of World War II in Pearls. Four of her novels have been optioned by major US, UK or French producers.

Her non-fiction titles include two standard works on the art of writing: Arts Reviews (Kamera Books, 2008) and Bestseller (Fourth Estate, 1996.) Her most recent is Deep France (Pan, 2004) a journal of a year she spent writing in south-west France.

She has served on the management committee of The Society of Authors and judged national literary awards including the Betty Trask Award and the Macmillan Silver PEN Prize. A former media columnist, she contributes to The Times, BBC Radio 4 and other national and international media.

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