Still Life: She wants to paint a new life...

By Geraldine Comiskey

She wants to paint a new life for herself, but can she turn it into a masterpiece?Beautiful, spoilt Chloe is a flower of a girl - and a thorn in the side of every socialite in the affluent Dublin suburb of Belgowan.Her parents got rich just in time for her to jump the queue in the pecking order of pampered princesses. She simply refuses to accept her place according to the rules of suburban snobbery - and, at nineteen, being the belle of Belgowan is only a starting point for a fairytale life full of endless possibilities...But suddenly the red carpet is whipped from under her - when her doting Daddy leaves her mother for a floozy and goes off to sip bubbly on the tax-haven island of Santa Moneta.Through the gossip pages of the national press, Chloe realises that it's not a bad dream: she really has got a Wicked Stepmother, a half-brother who's going through the Terrible Twos - and no pocket money. Dear old Daddy has turned into a champagne cheapskate whose business has mysteriously gone bust, and he's no longer willing to support Chloe, her wannabe rock star kid brother Daryus (who copes with losing his father by moving in with a lapdancer) and their shopaholic mother (who's not coping at all).Poor Chloe spends every lunch break gazing at the masterpieces in the National Gallery. Inspired by their complex beauty, she paints a colourful new life for herself.But there's a rip in her canvas: a charming and ambitious young solicitor, who is irresistibly drawn to Chloe. Just about to get divorced, 'Dear John' is simply not good enough to be in the picture. Chloe doesn't want to have anything to do with broken marriages- and she never takes hand-me-downs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1975984889
• ISBN13: 9781975984885
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"