By Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan has carved out a few hugely person territory as a author of serious heat and humour; she is a clear-eyed observer of human nature, as able to expand sympathy to her characters as she is to be sardonic approximately their foibles. With operating Wonders, this model of funny writing is satisfyingly in facts once again, wedded this time to a fancy and interesting plot.
Arthur Pendleton has led an unexciting existence, operating as a city planner and slowly realising that his existence holds few surprises. Then he encounters the pinnacle of a group of administration specialists, the beguiling and lovely Gwyneth Morgan, a girl Arthur reveals himself intimidated by way of. Her activity is to encourage Arthur and his ill-assorted staff of planners to tackle a frightening task--ensure that Coventry turns into the recent eu urban of tradition. taking a look round at such colleagues as nerdish laptop specialist Sven and the sad (and long-suffering) Cathy, Arthur turns into more and more dispirited. after which, astonishingly, Gwyneth indicates symptoms of being interested in him, and (even extra strangely) his workforce starts to fireside on all cylinders with rules. yet that's extra a possibility: starting a dating with the interesting Gwyneth, or making Coventry look attention-grabbing?
The parts that made Jenny Colgan's prior books bestsellers are firmly in position right here: quirkily saw characters, capricious plotting and a really related to experience of how within which so much folks reside our lives. either Arthur and Gwyneth are fantastically drawn, or even if the elemental topic (dull hero and brighter heroine in a non-metropolitan tradition conflict) may possibly owe anything to David Lodge's altering locations, it's none the more serious for that; this can be a fascinating learn
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Then her hands were on his chest. Her fingers were pushing through the mat of hair that covered it, and she purred. A real, fucking honest-to-God purr left her lips, and he almost came in his trousers from the sound. Seth jerked his head back, stared down at her, and God help him, he knew, from this moment on, if he wasn’t touching Dawn, loving her, tasting her, then he would be completely alone. Because no other woman’s touch would do. Dawn stared at where her hands pressed against the soft, short curls on Seth’s chest.
She wanted him now. Hard. Hot. Deep. She wanted her mate. CHAPTER6 He hadn’t meant for this to happen, Seth thought hazily. He had been furious when she followed him and Caroline outside. He wanted to send the other woman home without too much anger, without hurting her, without humiliating her. Caroline had been a friend. He didn’t love her, she didn’t love him, and they both knew it. They would have made a society match, little more. But there would have been children, a legacy, someone he could love and receive love from unconditionally.
She leaned forward and put her lips against his flesh, opened them, let her tongue lick at it. The muscles beneath the skin flexed and jumped and a hard groan tore from his chest.