Summertime

by RaffaellaBarker (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.22

  Venetia's boyfriend, David is working on a film set in Latin America, and in her loneliness and frustration she dumps him by e-mail. Then, guilt-ridden at her failure to to find a suitable man to act as a father to her children, she becomes entangled with her dastardly new neighbour, Hedley, who has a 'monobrow', dandruff, and an unfortunate habit of quoting Latin during amorous encounters. Venetia amuses herself by creating eccentric handmade garments, which go for a storm in a flash London boutique, and the boys and baby Beauty make endearing nuisances of themselves as ever.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  Venetia Summers is 'buffered from single-motherhood' by boyfriend David, but when work takes him to the tropics, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, e-mails languish unanswered, while children run amok, brother Desmond's outrageous wedding takes over her home and new neighbour, Hedley Sale, makes his dastardly presence felt. It's no surprise that Venetia ends up dumping David. But how is she to fend off the amorous Hedley, or break the news to the children?