Delighted to bring you an extract from 'Mine by Alison Knight
Mine
“What’s mine, I keep.” London, 1968. Lily’s dreams of a better life for her family are shattered when her teenage daughter refuses to give up her illegitimate child. It doesn’t help that Lily’s husband, Jack, takes their daughter’s side. Taking refuge in her work at a law firm in the City, Lily’s growing feelings for her married boss soon provides a dangerous distraction. Will Lily be able to resist temptation? Or will the decisions made by these ordinary people lead them down an extraordinary path that could destroy them all? Mine – a powerful story of class, ambition and sexual politics. Purchase Links UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08JQF4JQT US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JQF4JQT Extract
EXTRACT FROM MINE by Alison Knight
Here’s a short taster from Chapter Three. Lily, who has been married to Jack for nearly twenty years, is finding it increasingly hard to deny the fact that she is unhappy at home, especially after their daughter Beverley has an illegitimate child. She’s starting to have feelings she shouldn’t have for her married boss, and this is making her uncomfortable at work. Lily was sitting in the crowded café around the corner from the office, cradling a cup of frothy coffee she didn’t really want. She should be in the office by now, but she was hiding like some guilty kid. What the hell was she playing at? The truth was, she was hiding from her boss. She had a feeling she was developing a crush on him. Not that he’d given her any encouragement. Not really. He was nice, polite, respectful. If he fancied her, he’d been subtle about it ̶ not like some of the partners in the firm. Some of the older chaps thought nothing of patting her knee or copping a look at her bust while she took dictation, the dirty old sods. If she said anything, they’d act all offended. But she knew how they operated. At least she managed to stay out of reach of them most of the time. She felt sorry for the girls in the typing pool; they got the worst of it. She’d believed Mr Warwick, the Office Manager, had been different. None of the girls had ever complained about him like they did the others. She’d enjoyed working with him. It didn’t hurt that he was quite dishy, in a stuffy sort of way. She’d often wished she could get Jack to go for an office job, to be more like Mr Warwick, but it just wasn’t him. He’d go stark raving mad being cooped up in an office. She sighed as she thought about her husband this morning in his chauffeur’s uniform, giving the Jag a final polish before leaving to pick up a man who would be dressed just like Mr Warwick – in a Saville Row suit and carrying a leather briefcase. Lily remembered feeling so proud of Jack when he’d got that job. Wearing a smart uniform and having a posh car he could bring home had been such a big improvement on driving a bus up and down the Mile End Road. But she couldn’t help comparing him to her boss, who had people working for him and saw clients in a book-lined office. Lily realised that Jack was still a lowly driver, a servant, at his boss’s beck and call. No better than a bus driver, really. Dreaming about him becoming a professional man, of them buying a nice house and getting away from their lowly council house, wasn’t going to happen, so the sooner she faced that the better. Maybe what she was feeling about Mr Warwick was just a wish that Jack could’ve been more like him and that Beverley hadn’t just ruined things. The door opened, letting in a gust of autumn wind as a couple of office workers hurried out. Lily glanced at her watch. Five to nine. She couldn’t put it off much longer. She hated being late for work, and there was a pile of accounts to get through before the end of the month. With any luck Mr Warwick would be busy too, and she could avoid seeing him. Whenever she saw him, she couldn’t help wondering what it would be like being married to someone like that. Silly thoughts. Dangerous thoughts. She had to stop it.
Author Bio –
Alison has been a legal executive, a registered childminder, a professional fund-raiser and a teacher. She has travelled the world – from spending a year as an exchange student in the US in the 1970s and trekking the Great Wall of China to celebrate her fortieth year and lots of other interesting places in between. In her mid-forties Alison went to university part-time and gained a first-class degree in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and an MA in the same subject from Oxford Brookes University, both while still working full-time. Her first book was published a year after she completed her master’s degree. Mine is a domestic drama set in 1960s London based on real events in her family. She is the only person who can tell this particular story. Exploring themes of class, ambition and sexual politics, Mine shows how ordinary people can make choices that lead them into extraordinary situations. Alison teaches creative and life-writing, runs workshops and retreats with Imagine Creative Writing Workshops(www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk) as well as working as a freelance editor. She is a member of the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She lives in Somerset, within sight of Glastonbury Tor. Social Media Links – Websites: www.alisonroseknight.com www.imaginecreativewriting.co.uk www.darkstroke.com/dark-stroke/alison-knight/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/alison.knight.942 Twitter: @Alison_Knight59
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