Just One Day
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Story Synopsis:

Two girls, both heartbroken, run away to Argentina, one hoping for a rebound fling, the other hoping for some peace. Enter, stage left, two very different men . . .

Sneak peek of story:

Grace is sitting on the scrubby grass verge with a two-foot high statue of Jesus and a murderous expression on her face.

She is watching the coach driver attempting to repair the burst tyre with what looks like a band-aid and is angrily wondering what possessed her to take this stupid trip. Grace is not comfortable with discomfort. Grace believes she was designed for the finer things in life.

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Tell us about the location you chose for your SUNLOUNGER story… I chose Argentina. I spent a year there when I was beginning my career as an author: I ate a lot of steak, learned Spanish, fell in love and met lots of penguins, armadillos and llamas. It’s a huge, beautiful, infuriating, intoxicating place. I love it.

Have your books featured any exotic destinations? My first novel, THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME, contains various scenes in Kosovo. I had the pleasure of working there in 2008 when I was a TV producer. I guess it’s not a conventional location for women’s fiction but it’s somewhere that has stuck vividly in my memory so was easy to write about. My third novel is set in both New York and London.

If you could live anywhere in the world… I would choose New York! I have a lot of travel plans for the future (more than are practical, I suspect) but I’m desperate to live there for a while – it turns me into this hot, energetic, capable woman who I barely recognise. In England I am none of those things.

Destination you’ve returned to the most times? France. Cheese, wine, stunning countryside. Markets full of smelly meats, delicious stews, olives and, well, more cheese. I don’t think I need explain any further.

Ticket, passport, money and… I take my in-flight sleeping very seriously, so it would have to be my sleep kit: eyemask, ear plugs, hoodie and herbal sleeping pills. Man, that’s sad isn’t it?

Favourite cuisine from around the world? That’s impossible! But with a gun to my head I’d say Italian. Few things are more delicious than freshly-made pesto and mozzarella . . . Pizza/pasta I can take or leave but the way they cook meat and fish is to die for.

Favourite holiday cocktail? Mojito. Hands down.

What was your best holiday romance? My best holiday romance was with The Man. We met in Buenos Aires and are still together. (He’s English, though. Not the swarthy Argentinian that readers might be hoping for.)

Worst holiday romance: A one-eyed Irishman – it ended with me being stung by jellyfish and running off to Vietnam. Not great.



Robinson, Lucy

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Author Bio

LUCY ROBINSON writes laugh-out-loud romantic fiction for thinking women and is overly fond of long titles. THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME and A PASSIONATE LOVE AFFAIR WITH A TOTAL STRANGER have been published by Penguin to great acclaim. THE UNFINISHED SYMPHONY OF ME AND YOU is out June.

Prior to writing Lucy earned her crust in theatre production and then factual television, working on documentaries for all of the UK’s major broadcasters. Her writing career began when she started a dating blog for Marie Claire where she entertained readers with frank tales from her laughably unsuccessful foray into the world of Internet dating. She now lives in South London with her partner, The Man.

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