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    Turning the Tide (Paperback) By (author) Christine Stovell

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    Short Description for Turning the TideHarry Watling has spent the past five years keeping her father's boat yard afloat, despite its dying clientele. Now all she wants to do is enjoy the peace and quiet of her sleepy backwater. So when property developer Matthew Corrigan wants to turn the boat yard into an upmarket housing complex for his exotic new restaurant, it's like declaring
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  • Watling's Treat5

    Julian Womersley Well, blow me down! That Harry Watling is one sexy maid and no mistake!

    OK. She might hide her charming delights under dungarees and a smudge or two of oily dirt, but she is clearly a young woman who knows what she's about and where her capabilities lie. The running of a boat yard she learnt from her father, but her other skills hint at a past life of fun and frolic. Perhaps, one day, we will get to find out rather more about that side of her!

    This is a book almost of two halves. In the first part, the writing is as taut as rigging on a racing yacht - almost edited down to the point of pure précis, with barely a word wasted. And then, suddenly, like a fresh breeze from across the bay, the plot picks up as the stylistic sheets are slackened and the story is off and away in all its complexity.

    Aided and abetted by a cast of credible characters [although one cannot help but think that some may have been previously encountered when they were younger - in Crossroads, perhaps?], Harry triumphs in the end - as one might expect in any respectable romantic novel - but it is a close run thing.

    In short, I loved it. But why shouldn't I have done? Chris Stovell can write, and she writes well, whilst it is also quite clear that she might once have been a stand-up comedienne in a former existence. A stunning skill set, put to good use.

    And is there a minor critical quibble? Of course there is! At page 304, only a cad would have a black tie that "unbuttoned". How much sexier it would have been for Harry to have slipped the knot of that bow-tie, as it is designed to do. After all, with her background, she knows about these things!

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