Queensway

"...this major turning point that you're now entering into is going to be so dramatic in your life that it's going to rip away the very fabric of what you have known as your existence or what you claim as your reality..."

Queensway is a thought-provoking, Upmarket/Book Club novel that will take readers on a life-changing journey of longing and regret.

London restaurant manager Christine Wilson once seemed destined for a brilliant culinary career, but nearing forty in 2006, she is jobless and her life is adrift. She never fully recovered from her role in the traumatic death of her sister in childhood, and that air of regret haunts her adult life. Languishing in her East End flat, she drinks heavily, smokes, and spends her time watching television. Still, she hasn't quite given up on life, and life hasn't quite given up on her. In fact, the universe has an entirely different destiny in store for her; one that she couldn't possibly have imagined or dared to dream.

Daniel Kestreller is a celebrated man about town. He is feted in his role as a senior advisor to the US Ambassador, and welcomed at every trendy restaurant and bar in London. However, having spent thirty years displaying little empathy for anybody but himself, he is also a marked man -- targeted by a lifetime of enemies who would love nothing more than to bring him down.

When Christine finds herself used as a pawn in an attempt to compromise Daniel, the two begin a passionate, life-changing affair. Through the relationship new opportunities arise for Christine and, as her fortunes rise and Daniel's fall, she finds a measure of penance when she must take decisive action to save his life.

With characters reminiscent of those in Yates' Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, Queensway will draw readers in and keep them hooked until the very last page.

If you enjoyed the British-American film Half Moon Street you will love Queensway.