City financial wizard and cookery TV show contestant James puts his ex-employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ‘Dealing Positively with Negativity’ training course into practice by sinking his redundancy money into transforming his run-down Chilterns village local into a gastropub.<\/p>\n
But was it a smart decision, during an impromptu drunken bender round London, to promise the manager’s job to Kim: a struggling German conceptual artist from Shoreditch who makes ends meet as a barmaid?<\/p>\n
Both are moves that James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ambitious wife, Emma, is certain to try to make sure he regrets.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Angel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a novel that explores the conflicts between city and countryside, art and commerce, conformity and impetuosity. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the story of two people from radically different backgrounds that they both share a passion to escape.<\/p>\n
It’s only an early draft version but any comments would be gratefully received. The syntax is a bit contorted (long sentences) but then lots of blurbs tend to be like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City financial wizard and cookery TV show contestant James puts his ex-employer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ‘Dealing Positively with Negativity’ training course into practice by sinking his redundancy money into transforming his run-down Chilterns village local into a gastropub. But was it a smart decision, during an impromptu drunken bender round London, to promise the manager’s job to Kim: … <\/p>\n