Beds and Blue Jeans, By Nadine Sutton

A story set in recent years in Nashville Tennessee- the home of country music. It's the story of Sam, a young man, who has a small band that play in the bars for tips and makes a modest living. He has a lot of women flirting with him and he takes advantage of the fact. But he also has a girlfriend and a baby. Patti is a young woman who has no ambitions, and was drifting along, till she had her baby. Now she is trying to find a new way of life.....Its a story of real life, adjusting to having children and making a living. Beds and Blue Jeans: An everyday story of music and mayhem eBook : Sutton, Nadine, Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Rough Music on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Music-Nadine-Sutton-ebook/dp/B01AEQS0G0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18GXCTQGW919B&keywords=nadine+sutton+rough+music&qid=1693668929&sprefix=nadine+sutton+rough+music%2Caps%2C329&sr=8-1 A story about a country rock band by Nadine SUtton. Its about a band who are on the way up. The 2 lead singers Jeff Randles and Brandon, are both unfaithful husbands, and they try to make compromises between doing good work and making money..

Beds and Blue Jeans By Nadine Sutton On Amazon

A story set in recent years in Nashville Tennessee- the home of country music. It's the story of Sam, a young man, who has a small band that play in the bars for tips and makes a modest living. He has a lot of women flirting with him and he takes advantage of the fact. But he also has a girlfriend and a baby. Patti is a young woman who has no ambitions, and was drifting along, till she had her baby. Now she is trying to find a new way of life..... Beds and Blue Jeans: An everyday story of music and mayhem eBook : Sutton, Nadine, Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

George Grossmith 1847-1912

George Grossmith is famous as a singer, actor, and writer who wrote Diary of a Nobody. He was the son of a journalist, who also did some entertaining. He orginally wanted to be a barrister but after his school days, he took up his father's profession for a time. He also began to do some entertaining, writing much of his own material, including songs. He got to know Gilbert and Sullivan and started to sing in the Savoy Operas, creating many of their most famous characterHe played Ko Ko in the Mikado and the Major General in the Pirates of Penzance. But he is probably now most famous for the Diary of a Nobody. It was a comic diary, by a lower middle class man, Charles Pooter who has just moved to a nice but small house in Holloway. Pooter works in the City as a senior clerk but he regards himself as a gentleman and frequently makes a fool of himself by insisting on his genteel status. But he is a good sincere man, devoted to his wife Carrie, and loving his exasperating and mildly wayward son Lupin. Lupin has started out working as a clerk also but has just lost his job through laziness. Charles manages to get him a job in his own company, but Lupin is fired. Pooter writes about the hobbies that were popular at the time, such as amateur dramatics, cycling, and Spiritualism. Eventually Lupin gets engaged, gets a better job and Pooter manages to get a contract for his firm that leads his boss to offer to buy the freehold of his house and give it to him. Pooter is overjoyed. George's wife died before him, and he died in 1912.

Fran Varady novels by Ann Granger

Ann Granger is a former diplomat who began to write historical novels. She lived in many countries and then returned to the UK. She has written several detective novels, using different characters, but one set that I particularly like is the Fran Varady novels. These are light detective fiction about an amateur detective called Fran Varady. Fran's family are Hungarian but have emigrated to London, and she was brought up in a one parent family. Her mother left her father when she was small and when he and her grandmother died, she was left homeless. This gives Fran access to the seedy side of London life. Unlike some detectives, she has very little in the way of position or worldly wealth. In the first novel, she is living in a squat and trying to support herself, when one of the other homeless girls kills herself. Fran investigates and finds that it was a murder. She gets odd jobs as a waitress or in a shop, but she wants to become an actress and tries to get into that world. However, her natural quick wit and sympathy for people leads her into investigating crimes and problems, and she meets her mother, before her mother dies. She likes living in London and is a feisty cheerful character. She has a good friend, Ganesh, whose family run various shops, and she works at times for small detective agencies......

Rough Music

A story on Amazon by Nadine Sutton. Set in the 1970s, it is about a country rock band and their lives and music and love affairs

Beds and Blue Jeans by Nadine Sutton

Story available on Amazon. A short story about a young man starting out in the country muic business in Nashville.

Valley Saga final part

The disaster causes several deaths and the destruction of a lot of houses in the area, and Paul is desperately upset by losing Claire. Maureen tells him that Claire was ill and that her actions in saving Vanessa were heroic, in knowing that she was putting strain on her heart. He is touched and amazed. Andrew returns from America, realising that his actions in not taking care of the land, and selling property for quick profit, have caused his mother's death and that of several others, and while he is a hard man, he feels guilty. He returns to Shallowford and tells his former partner, Shawcrosse that he is going to insist that he sell back the farm that he bought a few years ago, which was part of the estate, or he will turn him in to the police. Shawcrosse is furious but has to agree. Andrew gets the farm put into his father's name, and goes to see him. He can see that he is still grieving for Claire, but he is pleased to see his son. He tells him how he has regained the farm and put it in Paul's name. He goes to see his wife, who has never tried to get a divorce or remarry and they have a long talk. They still have affection for each other, and decide to give the marriage another try, so Andrew moves back home. Paul is now in his 70s and leads a quiet life, keeping an eye on the estate and reading and buying things for the house. Andrew sets up a small antique business and He and Paul enjoy finding old things. However he is saddened by losing old friends among his tenants, like the Potter brothers and Henry Pitts. He and Andrew get on better now, and his son in law and daughter, Patrick and Mary, have a son who is also keen on farming. John, the youngest goes into TV producing scientific and historical documentaries. Paul lives to a very old age, and in 1965, he goes to see Winston Churchill's funeral. He is glad to see his children and grandchildren, who all live in the UK now, and enjoys his life in spite of missing Claire. He dies outdoors on his estate, as he wished to do.

Valley Saga World War II

Claire persuades Andrew and Margaret to reconcile for the sake of the baby, Paul is shocked but hopes that they can make a go of their marriage, and Andrew who has lost a hand, says that he will stand by the child.. and he and Margaret return to the estate to live. Simon is saddened by the death of his wife but they were not close for a long time, and he then falls in love with a younger woman who is related to Parson Horsey, the clergyman of the Shallowford parish.4 Andrew becomes very self absorbed after his injury though he is fond of Vanessa, his wife's daughter and is willing to bring her up as his own. Andrew has been involved in the scrap metal business, prior to the war, but now he gets into property development. Paul divides up the estate among all his children at the end of the war and Andrew has a share of it. He works wtih a man he met in hospital, and is becoming very unscruplous. When the war ends, SImon meets one of his former teachers and decides to go into teaching, since he's lost his interest in politics and he starts to look for a school. However in the years after teh war, the Craddocks find that a lot of land around their estate has been sold to developers, and it is impinging on the lifestyle of the local people. Then Margaret finds out that Andrew is behind the companies that bought up the land, and she tells Claire. he tells her that its inevitable that the area will turn from farming to tourism and business and he wants to make money out of it. He and Margaret split up and he goes to America, Margaret keeping Vanessa. In the next few years, more houses are built and the area is full of tourists and Paul is depressed. Then, when John, the youngest is 21, Claire discovers that she has angina, and she tells Maureen that she does not want to tell Paul. on the night of the party, she goes to babysit Vanessa, Margarets daughter who has a broken leg and there is a landslide caused by over building and chopping down vegetation in the area. The landslide crashes into Margeret's house and causes death and injury to others in the locality. But Claire trie to save Vanessa by getting her into safety in a tree but the effort causes her own death.