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The new cover for Torn by Gilli Allan<\/h2>\n
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the new cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gilli Allan’s new cover for both her ebook paperback will be available on September 22nd!<\/p>\n

Same great novel… great new appearance, designed by Gilli, herself.<\/p>\n

Gilli is thrilled to be able to offer her novel in a new format for those who don’t have e-readers or those who do but love a physical book.<\/p>\n

Torn:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can escape your old life, but can you ever escape yourself?<\/em><\/p>\n

Jessica Avery is a woman in her early thirties with a three year old son, Rory.\u00a0 She has made a series of wrong choices in her life \u2013 job, men and life-style.\u00a0 Her job came to a disastrous conclusion.\u00a0 The men in her life have let her down and her life-style involved too many pills, parties and promiscuity. But she believes that by quitting her old relationship and moving from London to the country, she has escaped all that.\u00a0 Her choice now is to live a steady, responsible life in a tranquil new environment, putting her son\u2019s needs and her role as mother as her number one priority.<\/p>\n

But she finds country life less serene and bucolic than she expected. Her ex-partner tracks her down and assaults her as she leaves a local pub.\u00a0 Luckily, a witness to the encounter steps in and helps to defuse the situation, but she is left badly shaken.\u00a0 As an in-comer \u2013 and even worse, an ex-investment banker \u2013 Jessica is not made very welcome by the local mothers.\u00a0 Then there is the management of the rural landscape \u2013 the interests of commerce versus the preservation of the environment \u2013 which begins to engage her interest and concern. She wonders if leaving London was the right move.<\/p>\n

The narrative is played out against the low-key background story of a proposed by-pass to the local town. Initially Jessica favours a new road until she realizes the route it might take, tearing through the landscape she\u2019s come to love.\u00a0 She is torn between the pragmatic and the romantic decision. The friends Jess makes represent the differing positions. There is Danny Bowman, the counter-culture shepherd; his employer, James Warwick, affluent widowed farmer and father to three year old daughter, Sasha; Gilda Warwick, James\u2019s match-making mother; and Sheila, the feminist nursery school owner.<\/p>\n

The title – \u2018Torn\u2019 – can also be understood as referring to the personal choices which confront Jessica.\u00a0 Despite vowing she wants no emotional entanglements in her life, she is attracted to two very different men.\u00a0 She finds, to her cost, that in the face of temptation it is not so easy to throw off old habits and responses.\u00a0 She is a woman who claims she has never been in love. Eventually she is prompted to re-evaluate this stance and to admit to herself, that beyond an undeniable physical attraction, she has indeed fallen in love, but with which one \u2013 the suitable man or the unsuitable boy?<\/p>\n

You can buy Torn from the following links:<\/p>\n

Amazon.co.uk<\/strong> Paperback *new cover*\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Torn-Gilli-Allan\/dp\/1477517014\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1347292020&sr=1-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Kindle edition<\/strong> http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/TORN-ebook\/dp\/B004UVR81Y\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347292020&sr=1-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon.com<\/strong> Paperback *new cover* http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Torn-Gilli-Allan\/dp\/1477517014\/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347292265&sr=1-1&keywords=torn+gilli+allan<\/a><\/p>\n

Kindle edition<\/strong> http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/TORN-ebook\/dp\/B004UVR81Y\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1347292265&sr=1-1<\/a><\/p>\n

You can follow Gilli online at the following links:<\/p>\n

Writer Cramped. Gilli Allan’s Blog<\/a>
\nOn Facebook Gilli Allan<\/a>
\nOn Twitter @gilliallan<\/a>
\nAnd over at Famous Five Plus<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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