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Beautifully Unexpected by Lily Morton
Sometimes love comes when you least expect or want it.
Magnus Carlsen is determined to grow old disgracefully. At fifty-two, he doesn’t believe in keeping anything. Men, sofas, books—everything gets jettisoned, eventually. He’s divided his life into happy compartments. A successful trial lawyer, he spends his days lecturing jurors, exasperating judges, and striding arrogantly around courtrooms. He fills his nights with a parade of handsome young men who want to make him happy. Why date someone his own age to discuss back pain, retirement-planning, and corns, when he can date men who don’t care to discuss anything at all?
However, when one of these sunny young men shows an inclination for dramatic scenes, Magnus meets his new neighbour. And his whole world implodes.
Laurie Gentry is nearly the same age as Magnus, but that’s where the similarity ends. He’s messy and creative and nosy and mysterious. He’s everything that Magnus has spent a lifetime avoiding. So, why can’t he get Laurie out of his head?
Luckily, Laurie is only in London for the summer. Magnus can uncover Laurie’s mysteries and indulge their annoyingly hot attraction, and Laurie will be gone before complications arise. A few months isn’t long enough to lose his heart. Is it?
From bestselling author, Lily Morton comes a romantic comedy about two footloose older men and how one summer in London brings something quite beautifully unexpected into their lives.
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He takes a left turn, walking down a narrow side street that’s lined on both sides with elegant houses. “I live in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.”
I whistle, thinking of the hilltop village in the South of France. “Beautiful place.”
“You know it?”
“I backpacked around Europe when I was sixteen. That was one of my favourite places. We reached it in the early evening and the smell from the flowers was incredible. It was less incredible when we had to sleep on a bench outside because someone stole our wallets and I realised that I got hay fever.”
He chuckles but a soft expression crosses his face. “It’s home,” he says simply.
I eye him curiously. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that about anywhere apart from my chambers.
“How did you come to live there? Did you have family over there?” I ask, manoeuvring around a woman who seems to feel her pushchair gives her the right to take over the entire pavement.
He takes a right and leads me into a small park—one of those you find dotted about London. People are everywhere, walking dogs or playing with children. A group of teenagers linger around a bench talking loudly. The scent of doughnuts being fried in a small kiosk infuses the air.
“No family now,” he says. “My grandmere was French. She was an artist, and I was very close to her. I used to spend my summers there painting with her. She taught me more than all my art professors together.”
“What was her name?”
“Marie Adnet.”
A memory flares. “Marie-Jeanette?”
“You knew her?”
“I’m the son of an artist,” I remind him. “And she is still very famous. It’s just that she’s only known by her first name.”
“Like Prince,” he says and I chuckle.
“I never knew her surname was Adnet or I’d have made the connection with you more quickly. I think she came to Denmark for a few weeks to spend time with my mother when I was a child.”
“Really?”
I nod. “Small world. I remember a thin, dark-haired lady. She had the loudest laugh I’ve ever heard. It seemed too big for her tiny body.”
“That was her,” he says affectionately. He blanches. “Oh God, tell me she didn’t sleep with your father?”
“I don’t think so,” I say. He relaxes and I wink at him. “The same cannot be said for my mother.”
“Oh God,” he groans.
I start to laugh. “Does that make us brothers, Laurie?”
“Very dysfunctional ones.”
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About Lily:
Lily writes contemporary romance novels, and specialises in hot love stories with a good dose of humour.
Lily lives in sunny England with her husband and two children, all of whom claim that they haven’t had a proper conversation with her since she bought her first Kindle.
She has spent her life with her head full of daydreams and decided one day to just sit down and start writing about them. In the process she discovered that she actually loved writing, because how else could she get to spend her time with hot, funny men!
She loves chocolate and Baileys and the best of all creations – chocolate Baileys! Her lifetime’s ambition is to have a bath in peace without being shouted by one of her family.
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