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| Pisky Business by Lark Westerly |
Pisky Business is the story of Jory and Linda, whose mothers are lifelong best friends. Their fathers... well, even their mothers don't know exactly who they were. It was, as Jory puts it, the 1970s... Now nineteen, Jory and Linda suspect they're not entirely human, so they corner their mothers and extract the story of how they came to be. It's a tale that raises more questions than it answers.
A few years later, at their school reunion, they encounter an old friend of their mothers' who knows exactly what went on. It's such a shock Linda makes Jory an offer he definitely won't refuse. In the wake of that, everything changes, and life gets very strange indeed.
Pisky Business is a romance, a mystery, and a comedy. As one of the Fairy in the Bed series, it came from my habit of wondering how people come to be who they are. In Honey and the Harvest Hob, Honey Bakewell was driven on her solo honeymoon by an enigmatic woman named Linda. Mab O'Mary from Horizontal Bunny Hop was conveyed to her mystery weekend by the same driver. As one of the other characters says, Linda is a person who doesn't answer questions and who never interferes. I wondered just who Linda was when she wasn't driving people to magical and romantic adventures. Did she have a romantic life of her own? I began writing Pisky Business as a short novella, to satisfy my own desire to know. Before I realised quite what had happened, the story had grown wings and grown to a full length novel. Since Linda is forty in the stories set in 2017, the action in Pisky Business takes place over the eight years from 1996 to 2004. Readers of other stories in the Fairy in the Bed series will meet some old friends in their younger days, including Honey, Si and Skye, from Honey and the Harvest Hob and Duffy Inkersoll from Pen and Ink.
Pisky Business was published today so it's brand new. To check it out, go to http://www.extasybooks.com/pisky-business
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