This romance novel begins one stormy Saturday evening in
February, when the main female protagonist, Lola French, twenty-eight years
old, watches television in a flat she shares with her boyfriend Alan in East
Calder near Livingston in Scotland. An immediate twist comes when she realizes
she wins the lottery, although she has an immediate fight with her boyfriend,
with whom she severs ties, moving back in with her mother Betty. Lola, looking
forward to being a multi-millionaire with her eight-million-pound prize, works
as a financial advisor for an Edinburgh-based company, where she has a lukewarm
relationship with fellow employee Cassie Matthews, and struggles with the
decision of to whom she should reveal her newfound fortune.
Betty is a divorced mother, and becomes angry when her
ex-husband George makes himself known again briefly following the news of their
daughter’s lottery win. Lola and her mother makes plans to take a cruise to
Venice, during which Betty falls for a man named Jeremy and Lola for a man
named Carlos. Things take a turn for the worse when a kidnapping comes into
play during the vacation that ultimately leads to hospitalization at the end of
the second part of the novel. The third part takes place after the Italian
vacation, with several romantic twists that involve a love triangle, with plentiful
reversals and more twists.
Overall, this is an enjoyable romance novel that enthusiasts
of the genre will most likely appreciate, given its twisting and turning nature
and unexpected reveals, dealing well with the implications of winning a large
fortune.
Author's Bio:
Rosanna Rae is married with three grown-up sons and lives in Livingston, Scotland. She has a B.A. (Open) in Social Science subjects and also took a writing course with The Writers Bureau some years ago. She spent 16 years at home raising her family and then returned to full-time secretarial employment in Edinburgh.
Rosanna has wanted to write fiction since she was ten years of age, after reading an abridged version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. She is delighted to be now fulfilling that early ambition.
'Lola's Money' is the author's fifth novel; she is currently writing her sixth book.
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