Guest Book Review: Ali Chrisp - Home Comforts

Reviewed by Tanya Phillips

Jo Longford's life takes an unexpected turn when her bosses wrongly accuse her of stealing from a client. Suddenly, she needs to find a new job and a new home for herself and ten-year-old son, Tom. Not to mention their small menagerie of badly behaved pets.

Her selfish mum isn't much help; obsessed with keeping up appearances, nothing her daughter does is ever good enough for her. But at least Jo can rely on best friend Val for support. They've been getting themselves into mischief since they were teenagers, and that includes joining a cringeworthy dating agency and an eventful school reunion. Some things never change!

Life certainly doesn’t get any easier for Jo. Will she be able to fend off her sex-mad landlord – a retired businessman who struts around in Lycra and thinks he’s God’s gift to women? Are her new employer and quirky clients at the Handy Jobs Domiciliary Care Agency all they seem?

And will Jo ever be able to sort out her chaotic love life when two equally unsuitable men gatecrash her world?

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Guest Post: Sun, Sea & Speedos by Ali Chrisp

Today I'd like to introduce you to debut author Ali Chrisp whose novel Home Comforts won The Write Time novel competition run by Corazon Books which was published yesterday.  Ali has written a guest post for us Sun, Sea & Speedos talking about her top holiday niggles.

Ali Chrisp’s career has included teaching aerobics in the early 1980s (often demonstrating death-defying lunges and squats on a dangerously wobbly trestle table!), working as a sales negotiator in a local estate agent, then spending twenty-three years as a civil servant. For the last five and a half years she has been working part-time as a personal assistant to a lady with Alzheimer’s. 

Ali is a real animal lover and the proud owner of Lola, a bonkers, mud-loving Labradoodle, and Winnie, a feisty rescue cat. She lives with her husband and their semi-feral teenage son who lurks in a dark corner of the house. He is mainly nocturnal, coming out to forage when the house is quiet and leaving a trail of destruction behind him. She wouldn’t change him for the world though. More at www.alichrisp.co.uk

Hooray! It’s that time of year again when you start to daydream about the lovely summer holiday that you’ve booked. When the time comes, you’ll pack your suitcase, get on the plane and spend a week or two feeling thoroughly pampered and relaxed, right?