Wicked Baby

Tara first very well done. So much respect for you. The cover looks excellent and the name of the book makes you wonder. I have just read the first few pages and i think, i am trying to think how to word this but the opening just drags you in. The poor girl. You want to read this and find out what she has done to deserve this and how is she going to cope. My blood chilled as i read the opening page. I wish you the very best success and thnaks again for the supprotive words you have said to me recently. I shall be buying it like i will be buying every book from the names i see on here and soon. warm regards & good luck stephen

Thanks so much Stephen! I used a portrait of Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward on the cover, on license from the National Portrait Gallery. It had a timeless feel I thought. The title 'Wicked Baby' evoked for me a young girl drawn into a decadent world. The first chapter gives you an insight into her background, which was working class and fairly troubled. So really she was like a fish out of water in high society - her sexuality was her only weapon. Thanks again for your interest Stephen, and good luck with your own writing. Tara [%sig%]

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Here's an easier link to Tara's store. My fault, I forgot to mail it to her. http://store.pabd.com/thanks

Oh. A: I should have checked before posting. B: No HTML here? How do you post proper links then?

I couldn't play the violin either.

Probably Kryptonite. Anyone's got the knowledge?

Yaaayyyyy Tara! I am so excited for you! The first chapter is excellent. The story is told with such stoic acceptance of life, with no mawkish sentimentalism and no plea for pity or sympathy either. Christine just accepts her life. Already the reader can see how malleable her psyche is. Just from the first chapter alone, we can tell that she's going to be bashed around so much by life until she is permanently pressed out of shape, but she'll never crack and she'll never break. I feel that's going to be her strength in the future. I'll be ordering my copy, that's for sure.

er, Tara's first link worked. Once something is clickable there is no need to shorten it. Numbskulls.

Isn't it still hot?

Yes

Stormy, the idea was not to lecture Tara but to give people a link they find easier to remember. My apologies if that wasn't made clear.

No problem Andrew. Karl, thanks very much for your comments, they're spot on. I'm trying to get behind all the myths about Christine and the Profumo Affair in general - my aim throughout is not to make judgements, that's for the reader to decide.