BENEATH THE APPLE BLOSSOM
BY
KATE FROST
Genre:
Contemporary women’s fiction
Release
Date: 04/08/16
Publisher: Lemon Tree Press.
Four women, linked
by blood ties, friendship, betrayal, loss and hope, struggle with the choices
they’ve made and the hand that life’s dealt them.
All Pippa’s ever
wanted is marriage and kids, but at thirty-four and about to embark on IVF, her
dream of having a family is far from certain. Her younger sister Georgie has
the opposite problem, juggling her career, her lover, a young daughter and a
husband who wants baby number two.
Pippa’s best friend
Sienna has a successful career in the film world, and despite her boyfriend
pressurising her to settle down, a baby is the last thing she wants. Happily
married Connie shares the trauma of fertility treatment with Pippa, but
underestimates the impact being unable to conceive will have on her and her
marriage.
As their lives
collide in a way they could never have predicted, will any of them get to see
their hopes realised?
EXTRACT
Connie
stopped and looked around. She had wandered a little way off the path and was
in a small grassy clearing surrounded by trees heavy with spring leaves and
blossom. Not in the mood for making small talk with a stranger, she chose a
spot in semi-shade out of sight of the path, leant back against the slender
tree trunk and closed her eyes. A slight breeze caressed her face and every so
often she got the wonderful sensation of sunlight on her. She took a deep
breath and drank in the scent of damp grass and spring flowers – fresh, sweet
and alive – then opened her eyes to the canopy of white against the blue sky.
The apple tree was bursting with blossom like masses of white teardrops.
She had everything to
live for even if it didn’t feel like it right now. Life was a journey, and the
best journeys were the ones that couldn’t be predicted before setting off, or
that weren’t an easy ride to reach the destination. Right then, on a perfect spring day beneath the apple
blossom, she made a pact with herself to keep loving life whatever was thrown
at her. She may have suffered yet more disappointment but she could still see
beauty in the world and feel at peace.
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ABOUT
KATE FROST
Kate
Frost is a writer and author with a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa
University where she has also taught the lifewriting course to Creative Writing
undergraduates. Alongside writing articles and short stories for magazines such
as New Welsh Review, The London Magazine and QWF, Kate has worked in a
bookshop, a cinema, as ground staff at Edgebaston Tennis Tournament and as a
Supporting Artist in the films Vanity
Fair, King Arthur and The Duchess.
Kate’s
debut novel, The Butterfly Storm, was
published in 2013 and featured on Amazon’s Movers and Shakers chart. Beneath the Apple Blossom is the first
book in a series and Kate also plans to release the first in a time travel
adventure trilogy for children by the end of 2016.
Kate
lives in Bristol with her husband, her young son and their Cavalier King
Charles Spaniel, and fits in writing and publishing books around looking after
– and being amused by – an energetic toddler.
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