Judy Astley

Bella has gave up with love . After a disaster with Rick, she decides to live her life. But her ex husband James came back in her life with the only wish to sell the house she is living in with their 2 children Alex and Molly. Bella is determined to stay in that house and doesn't want to go somewhere else .The house is well situated and she doesn't know why only 10 years after he left home James is interested in selling it . Bella has paid a good part of it .But she has seen her job as a writer a magazine reduced so she truly need more money. Bella had an offer she can't refuse : to have tv reality show filmed in her house . So she accepts and meet all the crew .The cast is constituted of her writers friends. So we will follow all the cast and crew making this reality shop happened in her house and around .There is also Shirley Bella's mother who is well dressed and a grandmother that every teen like Molly will love to have ..Shirley is like a young lady living totally her life . She has a boyfriend Dennis .Molly is a teen wanting to have a normal life as a teen ..with her friend Giles .Saul is the director of the tv reality show and has to deal with some strong personalities like daisy and his step daughter . How will all of that will go on ? will everyone will find peace is their life ?I loved Bella character she is so nice and tries to be a good mother and tries to deal with her life. Her ex James is a boring person who only sees the selling of the house , comes into the house without being invited ; tries to have his pair of keys but forgot that Bella has changed the alarm code. He never pays his bill at the restaurant so not a nice guy to me ..Shirley is really nice too and I loved seeing her love life going on and she is really nice to her daughter and to her granddaughter too. I really love this book ..this is my first book from Judy Astley .and I'm happy to have discovered it ;). I also love the subject of the tv reality show ..

Viola hasn't had much luck with men. Her first husband, Marco, companion of her youth and father of her only child, left her when he realised he was gay. Her second, Rhys, ended his high-octane, fame-filled life by driving his Porsche into a wall. No wonder her family always believes she needs Looking After, and her friends think she really shouldn't be allowed out on her own...Which is why, at the age of thirty-five, she finds herself shamefully back at home, living with Mum. Viola knows she has to take charge; she needs to get a life, and fast. With a stroppy teenage daughter, a demanding mother, and siblings who want to control her life for her, where is she going to turn?

It's twenty years since Miranda, then sixteen, holidayed in Cornwall and her life changed forever. Now she's back again - with her mother Clare and the ashes of her stepfather Jack, whose wish was to be scattered on the sea overlooked by their one-time holiday home. The picturesque cove seems just the same as ever, but the people are different - more smart incomers,fewer locals, more luxury yachts in the harbour. But Miranda and Clare both find some strangely familiar faces, and revisit the emotions they both thought had disappeared.