Tony Laurence Pořadí knih

Many people dream of running a restaurant and a small hotel. The reality is hard work, anguish and conflict, mixed with adventure and humour. Read about the romance of The Starfish Hotel.

Four hard working, financially comfortable young adults decide that they should be very rich and enter into a speculative shipping enterprise. They are swindled, they attract criminal charges and their lives are ruined, until they start to fight back. Travelling to Florida, Mexico, the Azores, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, the adventure tests all of their characters to the limit, until the final climax.

When Englishman Marcus is in Florida on business, he literally bumps into Kimberley Judd, an American cheerleader, who is working as a paralegal. Marcus has planned a once in a lifetime trip to India but his proposed companion can no longer go with him. Having taken a liking to Kimberley, he wonders if she would go with him instead. After laying down some ground rules, Kimberley agrees, and soon the pair has embarked on the journey. The author tells the story of their trip in wonderful and evocative detail, painting vivid pictures of the life of India in all its glory. Kimberley and Marcus get to know each other well and are both sorry when the trip is over. But is it the end of their relationship? If not, who is going to make the move, as one lives in England and the other in the USA? A Cheerleader in India is an unusual romance which will appeal to all lovers of foreign travel.

Set in January 1964, the story unfolds in Tanganyika, where a military mutiny disrupts the newly-independent nation as soldiers protest low wages and limited advancement. The government, under President Nyerere, struggles with inexperience amidst chaos, unable to seek assistance from neighboring countries facing their own crises. With regional instability rampant, the fledgling state finds itself reliant on Britain for support during this turbulent period of its nascent political landscape.