Staying at Daisy's (37 page)

Huge and grateful thanks to Marie-Louise Pecorelli, marketing manager of the fabulous Manor House hotel at Castle Combe, Wilts, for all her help in explaining to me how a hotel is run. Needless to say, the fictional characters in this novel aren’t nearly so efficient…

Jill Mansell lives with her partner and children in Bristol and writes full time. Actually, that’s not true; she watches TV, eats gum drops, admires the rugby players training in the sports field behind her house, and spends hours on the Internet marveling at how many other writers have blogs. Only when she’s
completely
run out of ways to procrastinate does she write.