Set in the cultural twilight between the conservative 1950s and the liberating sunshine of the late 1960s, Just a One Night Stand tells the emotive story of unmarried Marion McKenzie who, at nineteen, becomes pregnant during a drunken one night stand with Martin Corrigan, a Somerset farmer’s son. Unaware of his paternity, Martin goes up to Cambridge University. Once she realises she is pregnant, Marion is forced to confess her plight to her fiancé, Simon Thompson. Furious at her infidelity and unwilling to father another man’s child, he gives her an ultimatum… him or the baby.
Too afraid of her divorced father’s reaction to confide in him, and unwilling to trust her mother not to tell him, Marion turns to her elder sister, Gemma. She reluctantly agrees to allow Marion to live with her in London until after the baby is born. Marion plans to have her baby adopted - until he is born with a serious medical complication. What will Marion do?
Just a One Night Stand deftly propels the reader back to a time without extensive state support - a time characterised by entirely different social mores from liberal 21st century Britain. For Marion, the 1960s were anything but swinging!
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Set in 1963, Just a One Night Stand tells the dramatic story of Marion Mckenzie, who at 19 finds herself pregnant after a drunken one night stand. Too afraid to tell her parents, she flees to London to stay with her sister. She plans to give up her child for adoption - but there is a problem.... her child is born with serious medical condition. What will Marion do now? Just a One Night Stand deftly casts the reader back to a very different time, a time without extensive state support and an entirely different social mores from liberal 21st Century Britain.
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I'm 46, married to Chris and we live in Bolton, Lancashire with my son Giles (17). I was thrilled to publish my first novel, Just a One Night Stand in March 2010. Other than wr More...
