Twenty-One Locks ( Editura: Outlet - carte engleza, autor: Laura Barton ISBN 978-1849161749 )

Jeannie is twenty old and she's Lancashire's worst parfume girl. She works in her small town's department store, where all the other girls have perfect make-up (if a little too orange, and a mite too thick) and hair in buoyant ponytails. And she doesn't really care – she arrived as a temp two years ago and has never got round to leaving.

Being bored by work gives her pleny of time to think about her forthcoming marriage to Jimmy, her teenage sweetheart who's now a mechanic. He's a local lad and like averyone in the town, he lives for Saturday nights: beer, brawls and bare flesh. Jeannie is happie at home on the sofa, or better still, day-dreaming about leaving the town behind.

Just as her feet are their most cold, she stumbles upon Danny at the train station. He's a well-read. well-travelled, sophisticated ladies'man and represents everything har life is not. Or at least that's how it seems. And before long, it all becomes complicated.

As the big day arrives, which life she choose?