Please help me welcome Author Janna Gray to my blog today!
Book Title: Kilingiri
Author: Janna Gray
Release Date: May 21st 2013
Publisher: GMTA Publishing, LLC
Presented by: As You Wish Tours
BLURB
1968, Srinagar, Kashmir and Nina is devastated by the death of her new-born baby girl.
Sister Angela and Father Michael at the mission hospital step in to nurse Nina back to health
but when the friendship between Nina and Father Michael turns to love, Michael makes a
decision which will resonate through the years.
It is 1981 and in Kinsale, Ireland, Nina, devoted to her son Joshua, lives a loveless existence,
but a chance encounter changes everything. Michael is back in her life, he leaves the
priesthood and happiness is within their grasp.
But when past and present collide, their whole world is turned upside down.
Only by facing the consequences of what has gone before, can Nina and Michael embrace
Janna Gray guides us masterfully through this poignant story of love, loss, betrayal and
EXCERPT
Nina was very fond of David Kelly. Over the years he’d escorted her to the theatre and concerts
in Cork and Dublin and she often accompanied him to business functions when he needed a
partner. Initially his hauteur was disconcerting, but on getting to know him, she discovered his
deliciously dry sense of humour and enormous capacity for kindness and generosity. He’d held
Nina's hand when Josh had his tonsils removed and she knew she would always be able to count
on his support and affection. And once, after an evening on the beach with a bottle of champagne
and a quick snog, David’s attempt to kindle a spark of romance was abandoned with no hard
feelings, except one which he joked about.
Only once during the years since Josh's birth had she felt the need for roses, champagne and
glorious sex and when the opportunity arose, she grabbed it greedily. Tony Mayhew roared
into her life on a Harley Davidson the week she exhibited some of her paintings at his chic
gallery in Cork. He’d rented a cottage outside Kinsale that long ago summer and they'd become
inseparable. He made her laugh and delighted her with funny little gifts. She was slightly
disappointed when the romance ran its course, but she knew that he didn't want to settle down,
and besides he wouldn't have been a good father figure for Josh.
Since the fling with Tony there had been no one special in Nina's life, and when her body
yearned for a man's touch, she came to realise that the solitary act of self-gratification was no
substitute for the mouth and arms of the man she loved and missed with such intensity it caused
physical pain, and gradually she learned to sublimate the need for physical gratification until it
ceased to be of importance. Nowadays she could laugh with Laura and Meg about her abysmal
lack of a sex-life on the grounds that the part of her that once needed physical fulfillment had
Janna Gray grew up in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and was educated at boarding schools in
Kodaikanal, South India and Derbyshire, England. She trained to be a teacher in London
where she met and married her husband Simon. His job took them to Singapore, Hong Kong
and Thailand where she raised two sons, worked at British and International schools and
wrote articles for newspapers and magazines.
Currently living in the UAE, Janna was the Senior Mistress (a title which caused much
merriment among her colleagues!) and Head of Pastoral Care at Repton School before
trading her marking pens and report cards for the world of writing novels. She enjoys
travelling and sailing and had a love-hate relationship with exercise until she discovered
the joy of Zumba where the trainers turn a blind eye to her inability to remember dance
sequences. She sings in the shower and with choirs, has an allergy to golf and recently
discovered the allure of oils and acrylics – a delightfully messy way to express her inner
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Jodie Pierce
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