French Follies
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Story Synopsis:

Bella and Poppy hadn’t expected to find themselves drinking champagne on a billionaire’s yacht when they booked their holiday to St Tropez.

Sneak peek of story:

Lunch at Club 55 has to be one of life’s great pleasures. We’re sitting in the dappled shade of an ancient tamarisk tree, the Mediterranean sun so bright it renders the sand under our feet almost blindingly white.

The linen cloth covering our bleached wooden table is a pleasingly sun-faded blue, a pale echo of the dark denim sky. I lift the half-empty bottle of rosé out of its moisture-beaded silver bucket and divide its contents between our two glasses. ‘Another?’ I ask, taking a sip.

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Tell us about the location you chose for your SUNLOUNGER short story… FRENCH FOLLIES is set in St Tropez. I spent many summer holidays on the Cote d’Azur as a child, and St Trop is undeniably the most glamorous bit of that gorgeous coastline, with its echoes of Picasso, Vadim and Bardot. It’s beautiful, hedonistic – oh, and the garlicky, tomato-ey, seafood-heavy southern French cuisine is pretty darned marvellous too!

Have your books featured an exotice destinations? Oh yes. REVELRY – Ibiza; VANITY– (deep breath) Ibiza, St Tropez, Paxos, Paris, Tuscany, LA, New York, the Hamptons, Thailand and a road trip across the States! A GIRL CALLED SUMMER – Ibiza, LA, New Mexico, Mexico!

If you could live anywhere in the world… Ibiza. Because it’s beautiful, sunny and laid-back. I love the whole hippyish ‘make love not war’ thing. I love beaches. I love parties. I love parties on beaches. And I love the totally tolerant, unshockable nature of the White Isle – it’s the antithesis of curtain-twitching suburbia.

Destination you’ve returned to the most times: Ibiza (see above!). I even spent my honeymoon there. Our plans to try and ‘have a quiet one’ on the first day were scuppered by a group of strangers dressed as comic-book heroes. Much sunny merriment ensued.

Favourite world cuisine? French, Italian or Indian.

Favourite holiday cocktail? Oooh tricky! I’m a bit of a tart when it comes to cocktails, mixing with gay abandon and little regard for the consequences. It depends on the country too, but overall I’d say a Margarita does its job pretty finely.

What was your best/worst holiday romance? Best: Austrian male model in Thailand. Worst: Austrian male model in Thailand a couple of days later when he transferred his attentions to my best friend. We subsequently found out he had a girlfriend in hospital with Dengue Fever the other side of the island. Lovely chap.



Lord, Lucy

Sunlounger Contributing Author

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Author Bio

Lucy Lord is a novelist and journalist who has written for various publications, including The Times, Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Time Out, Marie Claire and Arena.

Aside from reading and writing, she enjoys lying in hammocks, long lunches on beaches, music, cooking and throwing parties. She lives in London with her musician husband.

Lucy’s books, published by Harper Collins, are: PARTY NIGHT, a ‘filthy-bright, laugh-out-loud funny’ novella which focuses on one eventful New Year’s Eve and is a prequel to REVELRY, described as ‘This Life for the 21st Century’ and ‘Bridget Jones times 10’; ‘Exotic, funny and warm’ VANITY, which follows our heroines from New York to LA, Paris to St Tropez, Ibiza to the Hamptons, and culminates in a road trip across the States that they’ll never forget; and A GIRL CALLED SUMMER, coming out this summer, which is set on the beautiful island of Ibiza.