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The Love Match

Michael Taylor first introduced the Kite family of Dudley in his successful first novel Eve's Daughter, the story of Henzey's mother Lizzie. In The Love Match, a new generation returns to enthral and enchant readers old and new.

 

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SYNOPSIS

Henzey Kite thinks she's found the perfect man when she meets Billy Witts. Handsome, ambitious and successful, Billy seems to have everything that the local boys from Dudley can't give her.

But while Henzey dreams of babies and a home of her own, Billy has other ideas. In time, she finds out that his easy ways with the toffs go farther than mere business; and when the Great Depression falls on the Black Country's factories, he shows the darker side of his obsession with wealth and luxury.

For Henzey, a time of heartache is coming. Only time will heal the wound Billy leaves - and draw her into an extraordinary love match.

PUBLISHING DETAIL

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 0-340-75129-0 

Coronet paperback £5.99
ISBN 0-340-75130-4

Magna Large Print £17.99
ISBN 0 7505 1788 3

Isis Sound Recordings £47.95
Read by Judith Porter
1 86042 826 6

Extract

". . . He had believed he would never see Henzey again, although visions of her with that Billy Witts plagued him intolerably for more than a year afterwards. She was gone, lost forever, and thoughts of her diminished with the years. Yet, unbelievably, here she was some six years later, sitting opposite him at his own table, smiling radiantly at him, waiting for him to tell his life story; but accompanied by her husband . . .
She was the most beautiful, most desirable creature he'd ever had the good fortune to meet and he wanted her more now than he did in 1929. She might be married. She might have been caught. It did not mean she had been secured . . ."

  
  GREAT MEDIA REVIEWS 
"Meanwhile, out in the Black Country, Michael Taylor has returned to the Kite family for his second book, still out to prove that men can write romantic sagas too.
The Love Match is set in Dudley in the Depression years between the wars and tells of Henzey Kite and her love for the handsome Billy Witts. But the dreams of a teenage girl are shattered by the stock market crash of 1929, a disaster for Billy for whom "money was all".
This is the kind of book that could find its way into many a Christmas stocking round Dudley way.
The Sunday Mercury 
Birmingham - December 1999		 It's about time a man wrote romantic fiction - Michael Taylor does it superbly.'

Edwina Currie