{"id":2602,"date":"2017-10-12T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2017-10-12T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T10:09:54","slug":"starts-today-special-offer-for-critically-acclaimed-novel-finding-penelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameslawless.net\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Starts today special offer for critically acclaimed novel Finding Penelope."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Starts today special offer for critically acclaimed novel Finding Penelope.
\nEbook only 99 cents for limited time at:
\nhttps:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/751236
\nWhen 33 year old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain from Ireland to avoid an oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, she finds love but her past returns to haunt her. <\/p>\n

Thirty three year old romance novelist Penelope Eames moves to Spain to avoid her oppressive father and drug-addicted brother, Dermot. When she meets Ram\u00f3n, a young Spanish school teacher, she is immediately attracted to him and feels the happiness that eluded her all her life may at last be hers. However, she receives a distress call from Dermot saying he is at the mercy of Charlie Eliot, a pimp and drug dealer on the Costa. Ram\u00f3n, whose mother was killed by a drug addict, tells her to have nothing to do with Charlie Eliot. Penelope must decide: is she prepared to compromise herself with Charlie Eliot and jeopardise her chance of happiness with Ram\u00f3n for the sake of her drug addicted brother?<\/p>\n

\u2018I thought \u2018Finding Penelope\u2019 was brilliant. I loved the heroine, Penelope Eames, a modestly successful romantic writer who is a sort of everywoman of our times and a wonderful mix of insight, diffidence and foolishness. I also relished the milieu in which \u2018Finding Penelope\u2019 is set, the expatriate Anglophone world of the Spanish Mediterranean, where lonely English widows and gangsters and Irish novelists and aspiring starlets all get jumbled up together and make a fine old mess of their lives in the process. This is a really, really fine piece of sharp, precise and accurate work. A novel that will give deep, literary pleasure.\u2019
\nCarlo G\u00e9bler, author<\/p>\n

\u2018Lawless reinvented the millennia-worn story line to reveal not only a Dublin expat Costa del Sol akin to the RTE Love Hate series but beautiful writing.\u2019
\nCaitriona Kiernan, Books Ireland<\/p>\n

\u2018Penelope is an authentic voice, full of human contradiction and composed desperation.\u2019 Hilary A White, Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n

Tags: writing love drug abuse ireland spain patriarchy expat drug crimes womans selfrealisatiion.<\/p>\n

Also available in paperback at
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Finding-Penelope-James-Lawless\/dp\/1517748593\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1507801930&sr=8-14
\nor at
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Auf-Suche-nach-Penelope-German\/dp\/150712029X\/ref=la_B001JOXD96_1_16_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507802031&sr=1-16<\/p>\n

Read the interview with James Lawless at https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/interview\/zhivago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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