Mummy Needs A Break Book Tour – Extract
On the book tour for Susan Edmunds new book called ‘Mummy Needs A Break’, here’s a taster from the taster.
It had been a long time since he had said anything that flirty to me. And what if there was more to it than just messages? On the one hand, the idea was preposterous. This was my clueless Stephen. He once tied himself in guilty knots when a woman at a party gave him her number.
Later, we discovered she only wanted him to advise which type of steel she should use for her fence. But on the other, he wasn’t the type to message anyone for the fun of it. I had had to show him how to set up reminders to reply to his work emails, and it had been months since he bothered to respond to any of my texts.
Thomas had finally fallen silent in his bedroom, and I could hear Stephen plodding back down the hallway towards me, blinking like he’d returned from a disappointing all-night dance party. He rubbed his eyes as he emerged into the white LED light of the kitchen but stopped in the doorway when he clocked his phone in my hands. He looked at the illuminated screen, then my face and back again. ‘What are you doing?’
‘Who is this?’ I rose to my feet.
I had to grip the cold floor with my toes to keep myself upright.
‘Who are you texting?’
He spluttered, a mottled flush spreading over his face. He looked as if he’d just swallowed something rancid. ‘What?
No one.’
I thrust the phone at him. He snatched it from my hand and looked at the open conversation.
‘What is going on?’ My words were harsh in the balmy evening air.
He pushed the phone away, his hazel eyes sparkling.
‘Nothing is going on. I can’t believe you’re going through my phone.’
You can buy ‘Mummy Needs A Break’ from Amazon and will be available to buy from good bookshops from 19th September 2019.
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