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Me Too
Nearly forty, Anna has a successful career, a long-term relationship, and a carefully maintained sense of independence. But as time begins to run out, one question becomes impossible to ignore. What if she’s left it too late for the one thing she truly wants—a baby?
Divorced journalist Rob keeps his life free from complications. But when he runs into Anna at a friend’s wedding, he’s caught off guard. The girl he remembers is gone, replaced by a woman who is impossible to ignore.
When Anna makes him an offer, it’s one he can’t quite believe. No strings. No expectations. Just one simple arrangement.
It should be straightforward.
But the closer they become, the harder it is to stay detached. What begins as a practical plan deepens into something far more tender and much more dangerous.
If Anna allows herself to hope, she could lose not only her dream of motherhood, but the one man who has begun to feel like home.
Now Rob has a choice. Walk away…or risk everything for the woman he was not supposed to fall for.
Because some arrangements were never meant to stay temporary.
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Author Bio –
Katharine Light was born in Glasgow and lived there until her family moved to Manchester when she was ten. While in her teens, she began writing stories for her younger sister Emma. These mostly centred around a naïve heroine and a 1980s pop star (some would say the hero was modelled on John Taylor of Duran Duran).
She did a degree in psychology at University College London, and after a year travelling, worked in corporate film production for several years, before taking a break to raise her children.
For many years she wrote mainly during the holidays, around her busy work for a local church.
Her first novel Like Me, published in 2023, was shortlisted for The Selfies Book Awards 2024. Her short story My arms are empty which is based on an episode from her second novel Me Too recently won the City University competition City Writes.
She is a director of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, with responsibility for organising their conferences, gatherings and awards ceremonies.
Katharine lives in London with her husband and quite often at least one of their adult children. She loves singing, walking, painting, looking at art, and going to the theatre.
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Me Too – Katharine Light
Extract #4:
This book focuses on the story of Anna and Rob, teenage friends who meet again at the wedding of mutual friends Jess and Sam. This section is told from Anna’s point of view, during the reception. She’s there with her boyfriend Jon, although he’s chatting to other guests. Rob (a high profile journalist) has suggested a walk, away from the guests, after Anna (successful clothes designer) broke down when her five-year-old goddaughter gave her a hug. The yearning for a child of her own sometimes blindsides her. During the walk, Rob has taken off his jacket and put it round Anna’s shoulders…
She stopped to face him. ‘You know, you don’t look stupid.’
He stopped and stared back at her. ‘Neither do you.’
‘I’m not justifying myself to you.’
‘Fine.’ He stepped forward and lowered his voice. ‘You know, you don’t look like a coward.’
She stared up at him as he moved closer. Even with her heels he was still several inches taller. ‘Uh…’
‘They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.’ He reached for his jacket, which was no movement at all he was so close, hand to her waist and kissed her. His lips were cool upon hers. Unexpected, and everything changed with that touch of lips against lips, a gathering pressure. Her brain took ages ‘to get with the program’, by which point he’d pulled her against him, an arm round her waist, and he was warm and hard to the touch, bending her backwards until she lost her balance.
He felt so unfamiliar, so unlike Jon, that she had trouble reacting. A part of her wanted to swing at him with all her strength. Strange lips, strange taste, so much bigger and bulkier than Jon. No one had ever kissed her like this—with such overwhelming presence and certainty. No seeking permission. Just swooping in. Hands in her hair, cradling the back of her head, the tip of his tongue against her bottom lip.
She resisted the urge to stay put and see what happened next. ‘Watch it.’
‘Sorry,’ he said, not taking his arms away but pulling her back against him instead.
It was warm there, in his arms. ‘Get off me.’
‘Why?’
‘You can’t just kiss me.’
‘Except I just did,’ he said.
‘Well you can’t. Get off.’
‘Are you serious?’ he said for the second time.
She pulled away, immediately colder, and wondered if her feet were sore. Difficult to tell. She touched her fingers to her lips and started to laugh.
‘What?’ he said, reaching for his jacket again.
She batted his arm away. ‘I think I can feel a tingling in my toes,’ she said, approximating Tony Curtis’s impersonation of Cary Grant.
‘Some Like It Hot? And I was going for my cigarettes, not for you,’ he said.
‘You can have them when I give you back your jacket,’ she said.
‘You’re beginning to seriously piss me off,’ he said.
‘No I’m not. You were pissed off already.’
He grinned. ‘Not that pissed off. I’ve changed my mind. Give me my jacket.’
‘No.’ She turned away and walked off.
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