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The Girl in the Yellow Vest

The Girl in the Yellow Vest 1

by Loretta Hill
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Publication Date: 02/01/2014
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"From the author of the bestselling The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots and The Girl in the Hard Hat, comes another scintillating romantic comedy, this time set on the beautiful Queensland coast. The perfect summer read!"

"From the author of the bestselling The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots and The Girl in the Hard Hat, comes another scintillating romantic comedy, this time set on the beautiful Queensland coast. The perfect summer read! We can t choose who we fall in love with. It could be our best friend ... or our worst enemy. Emily Woods counts cracks for a living. Concrete cracks. So when her long-term boyfriend dumps her, she decides it s time for a change of scenery. Her best friend, Will, suggests joining his construction team in Queensland. Working next door to the Great Barrier Reef seems like just the sort of adventure she needs to reboot her life until she realises that Will is not the person she thought he was. Charlotte Templeton is frustrated with the lack of respect FIFO workers have for her seaside resort. But picking a fight with their tyrannical project manager, Mark Crawford, seems to lead to more complications than resolutions. The man is too pompous, too rude, and too damned good looking. As both women strive to protect their dreams and achieve their goals, they discover that secrets will come out, loyalty often hurts, and sometimes the perf
ISBN:
9781742757377
9781742757377
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-01-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
234x155x30mm
Weight:
0.53kg
Loretta Hill

For her bestselling novels The Girl in Steel - Capped Boots and The Girl in the Hard Hat, Loretta Hill drew upon her own outback engineering experiences of larrikins, red dust and steel - capped boots. Her new novel, The Girl in the Yellow Vest, will publish in January 2014.

She is also the author of the ebook novella One Little White Lie, which was a no.1 bestseller on iTunes. Loretta always wanted to be a writer. As a kid she filled pages of exercise books with stories to amuse her friends. Her father, who never wasted his time on fiction, didn't see much worth in this pass time and pushed her to pursue a 'sensible' career.

Fortunately, she had inherited some of his talent for numbers and decided to give it a go. She graduated from the University of Western Australia as structural engineer and took her first job with a major West Australian engineering company. A few years later she met a lawyer at a Black Friday party hosted by a friend. She was dressed as the devil and he just came as himself. They are now happily married and living in Perth with their two young sons and infant daughter.

Despite her career in engineering, her interest in law and her journey into motherhood, Loretta continued to write. Not because she had a lot of time but because it was and always had been an addiction she couldn't ignore.

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I absolutely loved Loretta's first to books in this series - The Girl in the Steel-Capped Boots, and The Girl in the Hard Hat - so was very excited to get an early copy of The Girl in the Yellow Vest and I was definitely not disappointed.

This story starts with a wedding in Western Australia(which is a nice follow up from book 2) where Emily Woods finds her life hitting a brick wall, her long term boyfriend has just kicked her out, her engineering job is reduced to counting cracks in the concrete and she is desperate for a change. Her best friend Will (who also happens to be best friends with her ex)saves the day with a job offer with a construction team in North Queensland, that is after he managed to convince his grumpy boss 'Caesar' to employ Emily. But being one of the few females in the FIFO (fly-in fly-out)workforce and an ex who has decided he wants her back Emily's emotions are totally confused, and her best friend being the lovely Will doesn't help.

When Emily arrives in Queensland we are introduced to another storyline which blends in well, Charlotte 'Lottie' is struggling to keep her head above water, between looking after her mum with Alzheimer's, trying to mother her teenage sister and run the resort where the Barnes Inc FIFO workers stay, including Mark 'Caesar' Crawford the obnoxiously infuriating manager. But things are never as they seem and all of us hide secrets but when they start to come out who will get their heart broken?

Girl in the Yellow Vest brings us another collection of strong women struggling to make it in a man's world, while still trying to stay true to themselves. The crazy antics of the Barnes Inc workers and a declaration of love that rivals Mr Darcy for awkward and rude this book will make you laugh, maybe even cry, and make you feel grateful for true friends.

I can't wait to read more from the fabulously talented Loretta Hill!

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