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coloratura

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Having set up a music agency when very young, I moved to the USA where I edited an arts website in Philadelphia and then presented a live 'what's on' segment on TV. Now back in the UK I am finally able to concentrate on writing, and have recently completed a Faber & Faber six month writing course.

I am currently writing a historical novel set in the Himalayas in the 1840's.

Sit,Stay, Leave! is complete at 90,000 words but is being edited, so only the first few chapters are uploaded here.

Thanks to Sarah Harvey for great cover design: harveysarah@hotmail.com

I can be reached at : coloratura@galashan.net

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Sit, Stay, Leave!

Sarah Monk

Stressful job, testy teenagers and a boisterous outsize puppy - Rachel's life is chaos until dog-training tricks turn her life around.


Rachel is trying to re-boot her career just as her company is taken over. Balancing work and two unruly teenagers in London’s Camden Town is quite enough for Rachel, but when a giant puppy moves in things only get more complicated. Then mother visits and winds everybody up…

When Rachel’s dog-trainer helps her control her boisterous puppy she also learns how to discipline her kids, manage her manipulative ex-husband and upset the office politics. Newly confident, she even considers a new romance.

Exploring the animal instinct in all of us to belong, and the dangers of allowing a dog to substitute for a human relationship, Sit, Stay, Leave! is a modern story of discovering who you are, what you want and how best to get it.

 

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Hi Sarah, I hope you get a chance to read my steampunk story. Thank....

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Coloratura!! This is it! The grand finale, the grand push!! After ....

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I wrote 319 days ago

Great idea! Coloratura - Sit, Stay, Leave! view book

I wrote 328 days ago

Hi Gail –I loved your book, and having thought I’d read a bit I thoroughly enjoyed reading the whole thing. I was soon was looking for time to pick it up and see what happened next. Honestly. I loved the characters, the symmetry of the storyline of mother and daughters and the evil Eric (great st... view book

I wrote 329 days ago

Oh my goodness - I just checked you out for a bit of displacement activity and I'm hooked after four chapters. Where's her mum? Beautiful writing style, great personal observations, compelling storyline so far. Well done on being highlighted on the Wednesday one to watch. Well starred and on my ... view book

I wrote 431 days ago

Love your voice and have totally been absorbed by the first few chapters. Will be giving you a critique through the Women's Fiction crit group anon but well starred, on W/l and giving it a place on my bookshelf for now. Best wishes, Coloratura view book

I wrote 469 days ago

Hi Dave, I just wanted to say that I've read a bit further in your book and I think your open, honest and humorous writing style is very engaging. The subject matter is extremely interesting as although i have one cousin who had a similar disease to yours I actually know little about it. You hav... view book

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