Posts Tagged ‘Jo Rees’

The author of brilliant summer read Platinum, Jo Rees, has written a brilliant article for us all about writing your own summer bonkbuster. Our thanks go to Jo for taking the time to write it, we hope you enjoy it!

Making a modern bonkbuster - by Jo Rees

It’s that time of year again. The time to choose a book for going on holiday. If like me, you’ve got kids and a busy life, your choice of summer holiday read is an important one. It’s probably one of the only books you’ll read from cover to cover this year.

Sure, we might have great intentions to read something literary or that worthy the book group recommended, but the truth is we want something easy and fun, but exciting and engrossing enough to stop us being distracted from the kids having sand fights and husbands rummaging to the bottom of the carefully packed beach bag for the sun-lotion.

But after years of navel gazing chick-lit, I don’t want to read about anyone like me. I want full on escapism. I want glamour, a huge roller-coaster plot and the naughty bits being very naughty too.

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Platinum focuses on the lives of 3 women all scorned by one man and how their lives were ruined by the evil Yuri Khordinsky.

Frankie is a computer-whizz, but due to something that happened to her at home in South Africa, she’s now a stewardess on board Pushkin, a yacht owned by rich businessman Alex. But when Frankie gets to know Alex better, is her life ever going to be the same? Peaches Gold is a high-class prostitute, running her own female-escort service (to put it politely!), and she knows secrets about the biggest names in Hollywood, but does someone know a secret about her? Finally, Lady Emma Harvey lives in England with her husband, who’s about to open a Platinum mine in Russia.

But when Emma is shocked to her core, will she get to the bottom of what really happened? The three women are unlikely allies, but they decide together, they have to bring down Yuri Khordinsky and make him pay for the tragedies he has caused.

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