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Spring Sunshine
Work before pleasure?
Belinda Barford had been thrilled to be hired as Dr. Howard Henderson's assistant on his research trip to Crete. It had even seemed right to respond to his advances--it was obvious they shared an overwhelming sense of attraction for each other.
Only, their romance soon turned soar when it dawned on Belinda that although Howard was attracted to her, he wasn't returning her love. Surely he didn't believe she was just out for a good time--that she'd cheerfully get involved with any man who asked? />
Belinda had fallen in love. And she'd learned her lesson. She had to put work before pleasure because the pain way too great otherwise.
Belinda Barford had been thrilled to be hired as Dr. Howard Henderson's assistant on his research trip to Crete. It had even seemed right to respond to his advances--it was obvious they shared an overwhelming sense of attraction for each other.
Only, their romance soon turned soar when it dawned on Belinda that although Howard was attracted to her, he wasn't returning her love. Surely he didn't believe she was just out for a good time--that she'd cheerfully get involved with any man who asked? />
Belinda had fallen in love. And she'd learned her lesson. She had to put work before pleasure because the pain way too great otherwise.
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1991
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About the author
Sally Cook
82 books4 followersaka Susan Curran
Susan Griffin was born on 14 May 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, daugther of Maureen McGinnity and Norman Griffin. She obtained a Bachelor in English at University Sussex on 1973. On 1976, she married Tim Curran, and they divorced on 1980. On 1980, she remarried Ray Curnow, and they divorced on 1988. On 1997, she remarried Paul Frederick Simmonds, and they live between in central Norwich, England and in the Loire valley, France. She has two children: Rufus and Evan.
She is a professional writer since 1979, and has since written or co-written more than 30 published books, including a wide range of non-fiction books and novels for Collins and Constable, she also wrote under the pseudonym of Sally Cook for Mills & Boon. She researches the life of real people to her novels, and now also to write biographies. During the course of her researches she visited many of the places in both England and France.
In the 1990s Susan set up with a group of writer friends and ran a small fiction publisher, Rampant Horse. Since 1997 she has run Curran Publishing Services Ltd, www.curranpublishing.com, which specializes in preparing mostly non-fiction books for press under subcontract from major publishers. In this capacity she has copy edited, typeset and indexed hundreds of books. For eight years until 2009, CPS had its offices in a redundant medieval church in Norwich, St Mary Coslany. Susan has been also a trustee of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, which oversees many of Norwich’s redundant churches, since the early 1990s.
Susan Griffin was born on 14 May 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, daugther of Maureen McGinnity and Norman Griffin. She obtained a Bachelor in English at University Sussex on 1973. On 1976, she married Tim Curran, and they divorced on 1980. On 1980, she remarried Ray Curnow, and they divorced on 1988. On 1997, she remarried Paul Frederick Simmonds, and they live between in central Norwich, England and in the Loire valley, France. She has two children: Rufus and Evan.
She is a professional writer since 1979, and has since written or co-written more than 30 published books, including a wide range of non-fiction books and novels for Collins and Constable, she also wrote under the pseudonym of Sally Cook for Mills & Boon. She researches the life of real people to her novels, and now also to write biographies. During the course of her researches she visited many of the places in both England and France.
In the 1990s Susan set up with a group of writer friends and ran a small fiction publisher, Rampant Horse. Since 1997 she has run Curran Publishing Services Ltd, www.curranpublishing.com, which specializes in preparing mostly non-fiction books for press under subcontract from major publishers. In this capacity she has copy edited, typeset and indexed hundreds of books. For eight years until 2009, CPS had its offices in a redundant medieval church in Norwich, St Mary Coslany. Susan has been also a trustee of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, which oversees many of Norwich’s redundant churches, since the early 1990s.
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November 12, 2017
Re Spring Sunshine - Sally Cook's final HP outing is almost depressing as her prior book Inherit Your Love, this time tho she has a 20 year pop fashion h chase after an utter turd blossom of a botanist H.
The h is 20, an extrovert and looking for a new secretarial job so she can move home. She dresses in an extreme style and loves to pile on the jewelry, just like any other older teenager. She is very sociable and for all that she is a nosy nellie about anything and everything, she has a good heart and is fairly cute in her little enthusiasms.
She loves Madonna and Rick Astley and never goes anywhere with out her walkman. (In fact this book is practically a primer on 80's pop music names with some rock in the form of Bruce Springsteen and Velvet Underground thrown in. Tho SC obviously was just throwing names in because she has NO CLUE that none of these groups are heavy metal - which the H claims is one of his favorite music genre's - there was no mention of Sabbath, Priest, Iron Maiden or Motorhead and those are all British Metal groups for pity's sake. Tho Lou Reed of VU did do some metal later in his career )
So, ranty moment about lack of music knowledge aside, the h's mum tells her about an advert for a secretary to travel with a botanist to Crete. The h goes to apply and is instantly smitten with the matinee idol good looks of her new boss, tho she thinks his manners are bit priggish.
Tho the h kinda runs the interview, the H needs a secretary asap to help him catalog the Cretan wildflowers and see if they are suffering the effects of increased global pollution. So she gets the job and we are all off to Crete.
There is Cretan freezing sea swims, a TON of travelogue and more importantly, the H gets the h tipsy on wine and they fall into bed on their first day there. The heavens weep and angels fly, the h just got the slouchy spiked boots knocked off of her. Shockingly fast and after a few more days of this, the h realizes that she cares and thinks they are in a relationship and the H definitively DOES NOT. In fact the h is forced to take a good look at herself and realizes that with the wild outfits and all the jewelry and her make-up and her hair, people probably only see her as a bimbo and that includes the H.
When the h pushes for more from the H, he pretty much tells her she is good for a pump and a decent secretary and that is all he wants. The h stops sleeping with him and the only thing more we learn about the H is that he dated a fellow professor for five years once a week and then she married someone else.
That doesn't stop the h from having mopey moments and eventually over the course of finishing the research project, the H and h fall back into bed again and the h thinks they might have a shot at a relationship. Then we go back to England and the h is still working for and sleeping with the H.
The h tries to involve him in her extended and sociable family's life, and it works for a bit, but the h starts to realize that at work and around other people outside the h's immediate family when the H deigns to join them, the H is really ashamed of her.
Things hit an all time low when they have a sex session in the last ten pages of the book and the h explains that she isn't happy with him not acknowledging her and the H goes off on her about how she looks like a tart and she wants more and he told her he wasn't giving her more and she can just take what she is offered and like it. She isn't good for anything but sex and she is lucky he is willing to dauble in the dirt to get that. It was harsh, it was ugly and it was 175 pages into the book. There is nothing that the H can do to redeem that whole speech at this point.
The h leaves broken hearted and then goes to her mum, who tells the h to change her dress style and manipulate people at work to read the H's new manuscript and then maybe the H will think she is wife material. The h does and gets the H's department chair excited about his flower research and the H claims the h is now worthy to be acknowledged and he might propose and the h is thrilled and wants the H to listen to her new Kylie Minogue CD. The H agrees to listen and the h is delighted to be happy with that small concession and SC can call it an HEA for her final day in HPlandia.
All I can say is, thank the HP gods on high that this was SC's last offering. I sorta hesitated to pick this up to put it back on the shelf, in fear that those HP Lurve Mojo Gods would send a lighting strike to obliterate the book from the face of HPlandia. The H obviously doesn't love the h and she is only 20, she could have dumped this coprophagic slime slurper back on the compost pile and we would have gotten a much better HPLandia outing.
The h is 20, an extrovert and looking for a new secretarial job so she can move home. She dresses in an extreme style and loves to pile on the jewelry, just like any other older teenager. She is very sociable and for all that she is a nosy nellie about anything and everything, she has a good heart and is fairly cute in her little enthusiasms.
She loves Madonna and Rick Astley and never goes anywhere with out her walkman. (In fact this book is practically a primer on 80's pop music names with some rock in the form of Bruce Springsteen and Velvet Underground thrown in. Tho SC obviously was just throwing names in because she has NO CLUE that none of these groups are heavy metal - which the H claims is one of his favorite music genre's - there was no mention of Sabbath, Priest, Iron Maiden or Motorhead and those are all British Metal groups for pity's sake. Tho Lou Reed of VU did do some metal later in his career )
So, ranty moment about lack of music knowledge aside, the h's mum tells her about an advert for a secretary to travel with a botanist to Crete. The h goes to apply and is instantly smitten with the matinee idol good looks of her new boss, tho she thinks his manners are bit priggish.
Tho the h kinda runs the interview, the H needs a secretary asap to help him catalog the Cretan wildflowers and see if they are suffering the effects of increased global pollution. So she gets the job and we are all off to Crete.
There is Cretan freezing sea swims, a TON of travelogue and more importantly, the H gets the h tipsy on wine and they fall into bed on their first day there. The heavens weep and angels fly, the h just got the slouchy spiked boots knocked off of her. Shockingly fast and after a few more days of this, the h realizes that she cares and thinks they are in a relationship and the H definitively DOES NOT. In fact the h is forced to take a good look at herself and realizes that with the wild outfits and all the jewelry and her make-up and her hair, people probably only see her as a bimbo and that includes the H.
When the h pushes for more from the H, he pretty much tells her she is good for a pump and a decent secretary and that is all he wants. The h stops sleeping with him and the only thing more we learn about the H is that he dated a fellow professor for five years once a week and then she married someone else.
That doesn't stop the h from having mopey moments and eventually over the course of finishing the research project, the H and h fall back into bed again and the h thinks they might have a shot at a relationship. Then we go back to England and the h is still working for and sleeping with the H.
The h tries to involve him in her extended and sociable family's life, and it works for a bit, but the h starts to realize that at work and around other people outside the h's immediate family when the H deigns to join them, the H is really ashamed of her.
Things hit an all time low when they have a sex session in the last ten pages of the book and the h explains that she isn't happy with him not acknowledging her and the H goes off on her about how she looks like a tart and she wants more and he told her he wasn't giving her more and she can just take what she is offered and like it. She isn't good for anything but sex and she is lucky he is willing to dauble in the dirt to get that. It was harsh, it was ugly and it was 175 pages into the book. There is nothing that the H can do to redeem that whole speech at this point.
The h leaves broken hearted and then goes to her mum, who tells the h to change her dress style and manipulate people at work to read the H's new manuscript and then maybe the H will think she is wife material. The h does and gets the H's department chair excited about his flower research and the H claims the h is now worthy to be acknowledged and he might propose and the h is thrilled and wants the H to listen to her new Kylie Minogue CD. The H agrees to listen and the h is delighted to be happy with that small concession and SC can call it an HEA for her final day in HPlandia.
All I can say is, thank the HP gods on high that this was SC's last offering. I sorta hesitated to pick this up to put it back on the shelf, in fear that those HP Lurve Mojo Gods would send a lighting strike to obliterate the book from the face of HPlandia. The H obviously doesn't love the h and she is only 20, she could have dumped this coprophagic slime slurper back on the compost pile and we would have gotten a much better HPLandia outing.
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