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Veronica Henry has just released her latest novel Marriage and Other Games, but her next book is already up on Amazon for pre-order! Starstruck is due out in September 2010, and sounds like a brilliant read. Here’s the synopsis:

“There was an old joke that went ‘if you can remember the Raffertys’ wedding, then you weren’t there.’ Like the Jaggers, hell-raiser Raf Rafferty and his wife Delilah have lived their very full lives in the full glare of the media spotlight for thirty years.

Now with three daughters of their own, Delilah is planning her own birthday party, a night that will see the great and the good from the worlds of tv and theatre descending on their gorgeous Richmond home. Along with their three very different daughters: Coco, Mimi and Biba.

As with all families, there are fallings-out, secrets and long-buried rivalries bubbling away. And one on gloriously starry night, it’s all going to come spilling out… This is your invitation to a birthday party of the year!”

The book is published by Orion on 2nd September 2010. Veronica also has a short story collection entitled The Beach Hut also due out in 2010.

This week’s Author of the Week is the lovely Veronica Henry. Veronica has been writing novels since 2002 with the release of her debut Honeycote, which would go on to the the first of a series named after the fictional town of Honeycote. The following books in the series, Making Hay and Just A Family Affair have also been big sellers - Veronica has hinted at a 4th in her interview with us which you can read here. She has also written 4 stand along novels, the latest of which was released in July called Marriage and Other Games. Here’s a bit about Veronica:

“Veronica secured a job on The Archers, where her duties ranged from organising Shula Archer’s wedding photographs with Patrick Lichfield to playing Peaches the barmaid in the Cat and Fiddle.

From there she went to Central Television to script-edit such broadcasting legends as Crossroads and Boon. She then left to have her first child and became a scriptwriter, writing hundreds of hours of broadcast television for Heartbeat, Doctors and Family Affairs amongst others. In 2000, she turned her hand to novels, using her story-lining skills to write compelling, multi-protagonist fiction. She is now a regular member of the Holby City writing team.”

I have read 2 of Veronica’s novels, Love On The Rocks, my first of Veronica’s books and I loved it! I’ve also read her latest book Marriage and Other Games, and you can read my review of it here. Veronica’s next book Starstruck is due out in 2010 and takes a look in the life of a celebrity family, and I can’t wait to read it!

You can find out more about Veronica at her website: http://veronicahenry.co.uk and you can also read our exclusive interview with her here: Veronica Henry Interview.

To coincide with the review of her latest book, Marriage and Other Games, the lovely Veronica Henry said she would do a little interview with us for the blog! In case you haven’t heard of her (where have you been?!), Veronica’s written 7 books which have all been really successful, and she’s also a scriptwriter for TV shows as well. So let’s see what Veronica has to say in her interview…

1. Can you describe your latest novel in a sentence?
The theme is forgiveness - should you always be expected to forgive in a marriage, or are there times when you should forget your vows and move on?

2. How easy was it to make the transistion to writing novels from scriptwriting?
They are two very different disciplines. Scriptwriting is collaborative, you are very much part of a team, but there are also more restrictions - time limit, budget, continuity - that have to be taken into consideration. It also teaches you the craft of plotting, which was useful when I jumped ship. With novels you have more freedom, but you have to motivate yourself. I love both, but feel I am able to put more of myself into my novels.

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**Check out our exclusive interview with Veronica Henry!**

Charlotte is absolutely mortified when her husband is arrested for a committing a crime that implicates her in his bad behaviour. She decides to flee to her friend’s ramshackle house in the small Exmoor village of Withybrook where no-one knows whats gone on between her and Ed. She’s surprised to find the villager’s lives are all as peaceful and calm as she imagined either, and she soon befriend local bad-boy and celebrity Sebastian. His marriage isn’t going too well, and is drinking himself into oblivion while his wife works in London. Fitch, married to Hayley is also struggling but with his wife’s wild demands and juggling fatherhood too. Finally, GP Penny is free and single, and is determined to make the most of love this time around, but with who? Will Charlotte regret her move to Withybrook, or is it going to turn out to be the best move she ever made?

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As there are so many books out in July – 23! – we’re doing them in different posts. To see the other July posts, click which you’d like to see: 2nd – 3rd July | 6th – 16th July | 23rd – 30th July.

MELISSA HILL - PLEASE FORGIVE ME - 23RD JULY

Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again – somewhere no one knows her or the secret she’s running from.

Settling in to her new apartment she happens upon a bundle of love letters, all written by a man called Nathan to an unknown woman, and all intriguingly ending with the same three words ’Please forgive me’.

Moved by Nathan’s heartfelt words, Leonie sets out to uncover the mystery behind the couple and what went wrong between them. If she reunites the letters with their rightful owner, might the love of Nathan’s life find it in her heart to forgive him?

And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her own . .

DEBORAH WRIGHT - THE CELEBRITY MOTHER - 23RD JULY

Ex-girl-band-member-turned-PR-disaster Karina West didn’t see it coming. Her career’s history, her reputation’s in the gutter, and she’s completely on her own.

She needs to get back in the gossip pages, and fast. How better to achieve it than by adopting a child, the sweet, ten-year-old Devika, from a far-off place?

Karina and Devika are soon front-page news, but neither of them realise they are starting a journey that will change their lives – for ever.

VERONICA HENRY - MARRIAGE AND OTHER GAMES - 23RD JULY

Forgive and forget? Could you…? When girl-about-town Charlotte discovers her husband has been arrested for fraud, she flees to the wilds of Exmoor to nurse her broken heart. Yet despite the slower pace of life, she finds she’s not the only person whose life is in turmoil. There’s Sebastian, bad boy of the British art scene, determined to drink the local pub dry while his wife lives it up in London. Then Fitch, who married the high-spirited Hayley thinking he would find wedded bliss, but is struggling to keep up with her outrageous demands. And finally Penny, recently divorced and quietly determined to have more fun second time around – but who with? As Charlotte adapts to a life without LK Bennett and Starbucks on the doorstep, she turns to her newfound friends for advice. Can she find it in her heart to forgive her husband for what he did? And if she does, will it be too late?

LUCINDA ROSENFELD - I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU - 29TH JULY

What if your best friend, whom you’ve always counted on to flounder in life and love (making your own modest accomplishments look not so bad), suddenly starts to surpass you in every way?

Wendy’s best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is…not so happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend-all the while wearing her best, I’m-so-happy-for-you smile-and ends up in way over her head.

ELLIE CAMPBELL - WHEN GO FRIENDS GO BAD - 30TH JULY

All through school tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan were inseparable. But when a childish prank turned bad their friendship was torn apart.

Twelve years later Rowan organized a reunion dinner and all did not go well. Rowan never appeared; Georgina’s shocking secret was revealed; Meg behaved outrageously; and Jen finally decided it was time to move on. And that’s just what she did for the following ten years…

Until now, when in the midst of her divorce Jen receives a desperate call from Meg. On a personal mission to track down Rowan, Meg manages to convince Georgina and Jen to put aside their differences and help her. But none of them even begin to imagine the extent to which their loyalties will be tested as their past finally catches up with them.

SASHA BLAKE - BETRAYAL - 30TH JULY

Money
Emily Kent is the daughter of one of the most powerful women on the planet. Her mother and billionaire father have laid the world at her feet – it’s not enough. Emily is determined to make her own luck.

Lust
Claudia Kent is Emily’s step-sister – all she craves is love. Desperate to escape the misery of her past, she meets the man of her dreams. Or so she imagines…Vengeance – Nathan Kent is the son of no one. Adopted, and then discarded by the one family who could have loved him, he has only one goal in life – to get his revenge.

Greed
As disgraced tycoon Jack Kent and his wife Innocence fight for supremacy over their vast empire, family ties are flung aside – no one will stand the way of their obsession with money, sex and power.

ADELE PARKS - LOVE LIES - 30TH JULY

Fern is glaring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on one knee. Then a chance meeting with Scottie Taylor – the UK’s sexiest pop star – lights fireworks in Fern that won’t stop exploding. It’s mind-expanding love at first sight for them both so when he proposes in front of a sell-out crowd at Wembley Stadium, there’s only one answer. Yes, yes, yes! Before you know it, Fern is living the celebrity dream in LA and a wedding planner is arranging designer shoe fittings. But isn’t it all happening a little too fast? Why is this modern day Cinderella homesick for a rented two-bedroom flat in Clapham? How do you know whether love is telling the truth? Fern must choose which version of this fairy tale is hers …

KATIE PRICE - SAPPHIRE - 30TH JULY

Sapphire Jones doesn’t believe in relationships anymore – not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger than her, good looking, doesn’t place any emotional demands on her [so far, fingers crossed] and is great in bed. What more does a girl need?

Sapphire puts all her passion into running her own business – a high end lingerie and hen weekend company. She is doing well and life seems pretty good until she meets a very handsome, charming businessman who seems more than a match for Sapphire. Then things go badly wrong at the hen party she has planned for a soap star and tabloid darling.

The evening is one that everyone will be talking about for all the wrong reasons and Sapphire faces front page headlines all of her own…Suddenly her business is in jeopardy, her well-controlled private life is falling apart, and in the middle of all this Sapphire realises that she is not immune to love after all, but has she left it too late?

Veronica Henry, scriptwriter and author of Honeycote, Making Hay, Just A Family Affair, Wild Oats, An Eligible Bachelor and Love on the Rocks has a new novel out on 23rd July 2009 called Marriage and Other Games. The synopsis from amazon.co.uk reads:

Forgive and forget? Could you…? When girl-about-town Charlotte discovers her husband has been arrested for fraud, she flees to the wilds of Exmoor to nurse her broken heart. Yet despite the slower pace of life, she finds she’s not the only person whose life is in turmoil. There’s Sebastian, bad boy of the British art scene, determined to drink the local pub dry while his wife lives it up in London. Then Fitch, who married the high-spirited Hayley thinking he would find wedded bliss, but is struggling to keep up with her outrageous demands. And finally Penny, recently divorced and quietly determined to have more fun second time around - but who with? As Charlotte adapts to a life without LK Bennett and Starbucks on the doorstep, she turns to her newfound friends for advice. Can she find it in her heart to forgive her husband for what he did? And if she does, will it be too late?