Festival at Rowdean/A Very Special Painting Class (Storycuts) - E-book - ePub

In 'Festival at Rowdean', Melanie has spent an exciting year abroad nannying for a family with two children, so her return home seems something of an anticlimax. Everything now seems so dull in her home village of Rowdean. She is mortified when the village committee then insist she be involved in the organisation of a village festival. But could this be just the thing to bring her home town back to life for her?In 'A Very Special Painting Class', among her other part-time jobs, Lisa works as a model for a painting class.
Sitting completely still for long periods of time can be uncomfortable, but the money helps her to keep her flat and bring up her daughter Janie. But as one of the students begins to notice Lisa's features, could an unlikely friendship form?Part of the Storycuts series, these two short stories were previously published in the collection Summer Promise and Other Stories.