Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers' groups attract an unlikely mix of people, so when she starts up Hidden Talents, she is well prepared for the assortment of people she is bringing together. Beth King is facing emtpy-nest syndrome as her only son, Nathan, looks forward to leaving home for university. Jack Solomon, a local estate agent, is having trouble coming to terms with the shock of his wife leaving him for his best friend. Jaz Rafferty is an intensely private seventeen-year-old girl, who writes to escape her large, boisterous family. Victor Blackmore is an opinionated know-it-all, who claims to be writing the blockbuster novel every publisher will be clamouring for. What they all have in common is a need to escape, as well as a desire to keep their lives as private as possible. Even Dulcie, who, at the age of sixty-three, has been having an affair with a married man for the last three years. As they grow more confident in their writing skills, friendships develop and gradually they come to realise that a little openness isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Erica will be giving talks around publication and we have the following booked already:Knutsford Literary Festival - Monday 7 OctoberLancashire Literary Lunch and Dinner - 16 & 17 OctoberRoyal Guildford Grammar School - Friday1 November Preview has appeared in PUBLISHING NEWS: 'Erica James fans (and they're a considerable number) will find this well up to par'Barry Forshaw, PUBLISHING NEWS 'An engaging and friendly novel centred on a menagerie of characters drawn together by a creative writers group. Very readable' (4 stars)WOMA
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Erica James grew up in Hampshire and has since lived in Oxford, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Belgium. She now lives in Cheshire with her two sons, Edward and Samuel. She is the author of seven bestselling novels.
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Hidden Talent in Hidden Talent,
By Wlowry "sosmart-sosoon" (Port Orange, FL) - See all my reviews
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Don't know why this book has not had any reviews. It is not an exciting, overrunning with sex kinfd of book but an enjoyable read. The characters all come together to forn a really nice story. Read it, you will emjoy it, I think. I hope to read some other of Erick's books in the near future
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Dulcie Ballantyne had made a lifelong habit of not making a drama of the unexpected: for sixty-three years silver linings had been her stock in trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Waterman, Marsh House, Bloom Street, Victor Blackmore, Dulcie Ballantyne, Jared Winter, Norton Hall, Jack Solomon, Nathan King, Beth King, Ewan Jones, New Year, Adele Waterman, Star City, Novel Ways, Richard Cavanagh, Maywood Grange Hotel, Christmas Day, Grandpa Barnaby, Irving Hunter, Jaz Rafferty, Living For Pleasure, Maywood Park Road, Dorothy Kendall, Maywood College New!
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Dulcie Ballantyne had made a lifelong habit of not making a drama of the unexpected: for sixty-three years silver linings had been her stock in trade. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Waterman, Marsh House, Bloom Street, Victor Blackmore, Dulcie Ballantyne, Jared Winter, Norton Hall, Jack Solomon, Nathan King, Beth King, Ewan Jones, New Year, Adele Waterman, Star City, Novel Ways, Richard Cavanagh, Maywood Grange Hotel, Christmas Day, Grandpa Barnaby, Irving Hunter, Jaz Rafferty, Living For Pleasure, Maywood Park Road, Dorothy Kendall, Maywood College New!
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- Precious Time by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Paradise House by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Time for a Change by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A Sense of Belonging by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- A Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Airs and Graces by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Act of Faith by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Precious Time by Erica James in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and Beyond the Classroom by Brian Goldfarb in Back Matter
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