While Beauty Was Sleeping by Kristy Brown
Hilarious, Absorbing, Realistic Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Romantic Drama While Beauty Sleeps by Kristy Brown author Even now, in her late twenties with an important, responsible job, Emily Jones still can’t shake the teenage angst that had been placed upon her half a lifetime ago. It probably didn’t help that she was living with her best friend, a friendship cemented during that time, that day in fact….the day of the beef crisps that was an unfortunate pre-cursor to ‘the incident’. The humiliation that was to follow, the wet towels, being stood up, and the gravy….oh, the gravy, had haunted her ever since. Therefore when a misfortune befalls her confidante and soul mate of fourteen years who just happens to be accompanied by the one person whom she holds responsible for her teenage trauma, and her job putting her in the position of having to show a very keen interest, Emily is transported back to the day of Eliza’s elaborate birthday party, fumbling in the dark amongst the c...