MARRIED MEN
Married Men
Georgie Carter
UK & Commonwealth rights: Working Partners Ltd
German rights: Weltbild
US rights: Working Partners Ltd
All other rights available
If you are a wedding planner by trade then it’s best not to have affairs with married men. This is a view that Robyn Hood (yes, her parents really did do this to her) would subscribe to, especially as she has recently set up her own wedding planning business. But when she meets Jonathan while sheltering from the rain in a shop doorway, sticking to principles suddenly seems pointless.
After a delicious dalliance in the studio where they are both learning swing dancing, Robyn and Jonathan fall deeply for each other. Whilst Jonathan justifies his actions because his wife is a workaholic and never around for him, Robyn finds the glamour of their relationship – free from any mundane concerns – a thrilling experience. Maybe loving a married man offers the best of all worlds?
But inevitably, the pressures mount up. The need to keep it all a secret turns from being an aphrodisiac to a source of guilt; the lies that Robyn has to tell her best friend Faye begin to weigh heavily on her; the need to be at her best for Jonathan whenever he wants her becomes a strain rather than a joy and, most of all, the discovery that Jonathan is trying to persuade his wife to have a baby at the same time as he is telling Robyn that he wants to leave her makes Robyn wonder what her status really is.
Against the often hilarious backdrop of organising the high profile wedding of a rock star’s daughter, fending off sabotage attempts from her former boss and keeping her interfering three-times-married mother under control, Robyn comes to see that, after all, married men are probably best kept strictly within her professional remit – especially when there are some interesting single Best Men about ...
In future books Robyn will plan further weddings, with her own haphazard love-life running parallel to them as she searches for the one who will become her very own married man.
Married Men was developed by Working Partners Ltd.Since 1995, Working Partners has created some of the most recognised series in children's fiction including Animal Ark, Heartland and, more recently, Rainbow Magic and Warriors. Rainbow Magic now has sales of five million copies in the UK and Commonwealth and translation rights have been licensed in seventeen territories. Animal Ark, now with its own Classics list in the UK, has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide.
In 2006 Working Partners Two was formed to develop book ideas and to establish a network of writers to emulate the children’s success in the arena of adult fiction.Georgie Carter is a pen name.
