Magic Sometimes Happens
Margaret James
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 1781891753
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
London-based PR and promotions consultant Rosie Denham has just spent a year in Paris where she's tried but failed to fall in love. She's also made a big mistake and can't forgive herself. American IT professor Patrick Riley’s wife has left him for a Mr. Wonderful with a cute British accent and a house with a real yard. So Patrick's not exactly thrilled to meet another Brit who's visiting Minnesota, even if she's hot. Pat and Rosie couldn’t be more different. She’s had a privileged English upbringing. He was raised in poverty in Missouri. Pat has two kids, a job that means the world to him and a wife who might decide she wants her husband back. So when Pat and Rosie fall in love, the prospects don't seem bright for them. But magic sometimes happens - right? Margaret James’ previous romantic comedy The Wedding Diary is shortlisted for the 2014 UK Romantic Comedy Award. Magic Sometimes Happens has links to all Margaret's previous Choc Lit novels.
mouth. ‘Now you slap my face, like in the movies.’ ‘Oh, Pat, you’re such an idiot!’ She shook her head again. But she was smiling now and it was like the sun came out after a storm. ‘I don’t want to slap you anywhere.’ She let me kiss her and finally she kissed me back and we got up and walked into the living room and sat down on the couch and kissed some more. I stayed the night. ‘When’s that conference in Colorado?’ she asked the following morning. ‘I suppose it must be fairly soon?’
Bangle Margaret James When should you trust your heart? It’s 1942 when Cassie Taylor reluctantly leaves Birmingham to become a land girl on a farm in Dorset. There she meets Robert and Stephen Denham, twins recovering from injuries sustained at Dunkirk. Cassie is instantly drawn to Stephen, but is wary of the more complex Robert – who doesn’t seem to like Cassie one little bit. At first, Robert wants to sack the inexperienced city girl. But Cassie soon learns, and Robert comes to admire her
baiser me to glory, could you? Tie me up and tie me down and then do anything you want with me? ‘… I’m sorry I made such a fuss on Saturday.’ What a brilliant conversationalist. Dorothy Parker would have been in fits of jealousy. ‘I don’t often cry.’ ‘Oh, most anybody would have cried.’ Patrick Riley’s voice was warm as caramel, a perfect mocha latte on a freezing winter day. ‘If I’d run into that old rock, I would have cried myself. You’re one brave girl, you know. You did all right.’ I felt
judge?’ ‘She’s a JP, a Justice of the Peace, a voluntary magistrate. I don’t know what you call them in America? Maybe you don’t have JPs?’ ‘We do. They marry people. Rosie, if your mom and dad aren’t home, maybe we should come back later?’ ‘Granny will be here. She’s probably dozing in the sitting room pretending that she’s not asleep at all. I don’t sleep in the day, she says. So come on, let’s go and wake her up.’ When Rosie opened the front door, a ton of dogs flowed out. I don’t much
guys who understand the bunch of neurons that make up the human brain.’ ‘It’s a deep and devious mystery, the human brain. You can’t reduce it to a bunch of neurons, however hard you try. So, this beer, then – when and where?’ ‘I don’t have time.’ ‘Come on!’ ‘I’m very busy.’ ‘Nobody’s too busy to down a beer or two – not even you, Dr Obsessive and Compulsive Grader.’ I did have time to down a beer or two. I had not seen Ben for what seemed like a century. But I didn’t have any inclination