Please Don't Stop the Music - Softcover

Lovering, Jane

3.75

1,625 ratings by Goodreads

9781906931278: Please Don't Stop the Music

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906931275 ISBN 13: 9781906931278

Publisher: Choc Lit, 2012

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How much can you hide?

Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail - until enigmatic Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop and things start looking up, on all fronts.

But Ben has secrets too. When Jemima finds out he used to be the front man of hugely successful Indie rock band Willow Down, she wants to know more. Why did he desert the band on their US tour? Why is he now a semi-recluse?

And the curiosity is mutual - which means that her own secret is no longer safe...

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About the Author:

JANE LOVERING was born in Devon, England but, following extradition procedures, now lives in Yorkshire. She has five children, four cats, two dogs and doesn’t believe in housework so the bacteria and dust are approaching sentience and now rank among the pets. Incidentally, she doesn’t believe in ironing either, and the children all learned self-defensive cookery at early ages. She works in a local school and also teaches creative writing, which are extreme ways of avoiding the washing up. Jane is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and has a first class honours degree in creative writing. Jane writes romantic comedies which are often described as ‘quirky’. One day she’s going to find out what that means.

Review:

Please Don’t Stop the Music is a real gem of a story that completely caught me by surprise.

This is a book that will have you captivated to the end. The author described the characters and the secondary characters so well. So much, in fact, that I want to read another story about Rosie and Jason. I really loved this story.

Dear Ms. Lovering, Since I enjoyed the first book of yours I read, “Slightly Foxed,” I jumped at the chance to check out your latest release, “Please Don’t Stop the Music.” Your description of it as a ‘dark psychological romance – with jokes’ is dead on.

Please Don't Stop The Music by Jane Lovering is a novel I cannot put down. The book follows Jem as she finds her way through a maze of hidden pain from a very troubled life, from which she is trying to run, hiding the memories even from herself. Although she has sworn off of love and men, she meets an irresistible man who is skin and bones but who gives her a chance to sell the jewelry she makes in order to survive. They become friends and she learns of the dreadful pain he is hiding from the world and for which he has given up fame and fortune and become a recluse. The British characters in this book are delightful and fully, interestingly developed. Although the Brit slang is a few times a bit quirky to an American reader, it is fully understandable. The story is good all the way to the happy ending. I really enjoyed this one!

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